Indeed, according to the maker of the scanner, the software will not be updated, so if and when I update to Catalina, I’ll no longer be able to use the scanner at all. The “not optimized for your Mac” is kind of a misnomer, especially because the meat of the issue is in smaller print below in the “this app will not work with future versions of macOS.”Īnd so if I were to upgrade my Mac to Catalina today, for example, I could no longer use the app installed for my Doxie scanner. If you’re a Mac user, you’ve likely wondered about dialog boxes like this that have been popping up in recent years:
Support for Plustek OpticFilm film scanners on Catalina is almost ready to release and will be available in the next month.With the release of MacOS Catalina yesterday, I was reminded that it’s no longer possibleto run 32 bit applications if I upgrade. Some notable scanners that work with VueScan 9.7 and don't work with the vendor-supplied software on Catalina are most Fujitsu ScanSnap document scanners, most Canon DR-series document scanners, many older Epson flatbed and film scanners, many older Canon scanners and most PIE and Reflecta film scanners. VueScan lets people to continue using their scanners on Catalina, saving the environment and saving money." 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.
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