VueScan 8.4.57

VueScan supports over 750 flatbed and film scanners and 142 digital camera raw file types, and is available for Mac OS X, Windows and Linux. It automatically adjusts images to optimum color balance, which reduces the need to manually do this in Photoshop. VueScan includes built-in color calibration of scanners, producing colors that look true to life. Supporting more than 100 brands of negative film, VueScan offers options for scanning faded slides and prints, batch scanning, IT8 color calibration and other advanced scanning features.
VueScan Supports More Than 500 Scanners With Windows Vista, and has been downloaded more than 5 million times.
These all work well with VueScan and are some of our favorites:
Best 35mm film scanners: Nikon CoolScan (all models) - good color, good quality, fast
Best low-end flatbed scanners: Canon LiDE 20/25/30 - small, inexpensive, get power from USB
Best high-end flatbed scanners: Epson Perfection 4990/V700/V750 - fast, good quality
Best A3 document scanners: Epson GT-15000 and GT-30000 - reliable, good quality
Best raw file software: Adobe LightRoom - reads VueScans Raw DNG files (Apples Aperture doesnt)
Spare parts for Minolta film scanners: Minolta film scanner
New in version 8.4.39
Added support for Epson Perfection V500
Improved auto-focus on Canon FS4000