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Have a look at vuescan. It's 64bit clean and supports scanners back to the late 1990's.

I use it myself and ignore the manufacturers software altogether. Which form my scanner only supported PowerPC.

https://www.hamrick.com/vuescan/supported-scanners.html



Wow, VueScan! A blast from the past. I used it 15 years ago. Glad to see it's still around, maintained by the one guy (and now him and his son according to the website). I'm definitely going to buy a license now ($99) and ditch the 32-bit manufacturer's software.

Software like VueScan and USB Overdrive (just bought a license for that too $20) deserve to be in some sort of Apple Hall of Fame.


I switched to ExactScan to support my Fujitsu S1500M:

https://www.exactscan.com


Vuescan is great, its better than most scanner apps too, insomuch as, its actually good at scanning.


> its actually good at scanning

Careful now. Scanner manufacturers would have you believe that's nearly impossible unless you remember to make the appropriate sacrifices under a full moon on a marble altar.


I found this application the other day, and despite its look, it really is great.




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