purchase of a license the program runs in fully functional demonstration mode, identical to Professional mode, except that watermarks are superimposed on saved and printed images. Purchase of a license removes the watermark. A standard license allows updates for one year; a professional license allows unlimited updates and provides some additional features. VueScan supports optical character recognition (OCR), with English included and 32 additional language packages available on its Web site. In September 2011, VueScan co-developer Ed Hamrick said that he was selling US$3 million per year of VueScan licenses. See also Image Capture — alternative scanner software bundled free with Mac OS X Scanner Access Now Easy (SANE) — open-source scanner API for Unix, Windows, OS/2 References Further reading The VueScan Bible: Everything You Need to Know for Perfect Scanning; Sascha Steinhoff; 176 pages; 2011; . External links Image scanning Graphics software Photo software Windows graphics-related software MacOS graphics software Windows text-related software MacOS text-related software Shareware Optical character recognition software