If you haven't got a default scanning software loaded onto your machine, then
take a look at Vuescan, which simply and easily allows you to connect to your
scanner in minutes. The developers of VueScan claim that it's the world's
most widely-used scanning software among photographers, home users and
corporations. Although this would seem far fetched, it's certainly true that
it must be popular simply by virtue of it's simplicity and ease of use for
anyone not familiar with scanning software. VueScan is highly flexible which
is another great aspect of it - it doesn't matter if you change scanner as it
still continues to support it whatever model it is. According to the
developers, VueScan supports more than 400 scanners and 185 digital camera
raw files so you won't find any incompatibility issues. Installation is
lightning quick as it's such a light package and there's little waiting
around - just open VueScan and you're ready to scan. VueScan is not only
great for simple scanning tasks, but its also suitable for Optical Character
Recognition (OCR). VueScan is impressively accurate in this respect although
it works even better if you download this dictionary of common words. Just
place the file (vuedict.dat) in the same directory as the VueScan program and
choose the language using the "Output|OCR text language" option. There's not
much to it but in a way, that's the great thing about VueScan - it doesn't
bloat your system with unnecessary features or scanning options.Download
*VueScan 9.0.57* in Softonic
