However, most vendor-supplied scanner drivers are 32-bit programs on Mac OS and don’t work on Catalina. Scanners don’t wear out and people like to use their scanners for a long time, sometimes for 10 or 15 years. Tried and trusted for 20 years, the developers at Hamrick Software have recently released VueScan 9.7, which enables Mac OS Catalina users to continue using their existing scanners.Įd Hamrick, President of Hamrick Software, says “One of the main things that Apple has done in Catalina is remove support for running 32-bit programs. Hamrick Software, the developer of VueScan - the world’s most widely used scanning software – is rapidly increasing its customer base (already above 800,000) as people are turning to VueScan to ensure their scanner still works.

VueScan 9.7 from Hamrick Software enables macOS Catalina users to continue using their existing scanners. Many vendors have chosen not to update their old software to be 64-bit or include the new code-signing which has orphaned thousands of models.

Vuescan 9.7