VueScan 0.1 was first released in 1998 with support for a single scanner on Windows only. The company has also announced that its customer base now stands at more than 200,000. Hamrick Software, the developer of VueScan, has released its latest version 8.5.26. VueScan is available in two editions, Standard Edition ($39.95) and Professional Edition ($79.95). It includes built-in IT8 colour calibration of scanners, batch scanning and other advanced and powerful scanning and productivity features. Available for Linux as well as Windoes and Mac OS, VueScan offers a full range of advanced features including options for scanning faded slides and prints and automatically adjusting images to optimum colour balance that reduces the need to manually do it in Photoshop. After 11 years of development, VueScan now supports over 1200 scanners on 3 operating systems.

Within 5 years VueScan supported more than 400 scanners, and had acquired a good reputation through word of mouth. Hamrick Software has released VueScan 8.6 - with support for Windows 7 & Mac OS X 10.6 and more than 65 improvements / features added, 110 problems fixed and 80 additional scanners supported.

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