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226        <h1 class="text-4xl font-extrabold">About VueScan and Hamrick Software</h1>
227        <p>
228            Hamrick Software was founded in 1991 by Ed Hamrick. Our first product was VuePrint, an easy to use JPEG
229            viewer for Windows that for many years was the recommended image viewer for AOL, with more than 100,000
230            users. In 1998, the company first released VueScan, a program for scanning with flatbed and film scanners
231            with more than 600,000 users all over the world. Hamrick Software is a father and son team: Ed Hamrick and his son David Hamrick.
232        </p>
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236                <span>
237                    <a href="#about">About the Authors</a>
238                </span>
239                <br />
240                <span>
241                    <a href="https://www.hamrick.com/newsletter.html">Newsletter</a>
242                </span>
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245                <span>
246                    <a href="https://www.hamrick.com/vuescan-reviews.html#reviews">VueScan Reviews</a>
247                </span>
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249            </div>
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254        <h3 id="about">About the Authors</h3>
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268                <p>
269                    Ed Hamrick has always been interested in photography, and when he purchased his first film scanner
270                    (an HP PhotoSmart) in 1997 he decided to see if he could produce better quality scans than the
271                    software that came with the scanner. The result of this was a program called VueSmart. After
272                    upgrading to the Nikon LS-30, Ed modified VueSmart to support multiple scanners and renamed it
273                    VueScan. In the following years, Ed added support for many different scanners, and is constantly
274                    adding support for new scanners (now more than 8000), implementing suggestions from users, and
275                    adding new features. As a result, new versions of VueScan are released frequently.
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285                    Ed graduated with honors from the California Institute of Technology (CalTech) with a degree in
286                    Engineering and Applied Science. He worked for three years at NASA/JPL as a programmer, and worked
287                    at Boeing as a programmer and manager for ten years. Subsequently, Ed worked for five years at
288                    Convex Computer Corporation as a Systems Engineer and Systems Engineering Manager. Ed is also the
289		    inventor of <a href="https://www.cellofuel.com">six granted patents</a> in biofuels technology. He speaks fluent English, Russian and
290                    German.
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299                    David has been interested in software and programming since
300                    he was very young. He is an alumnus of Vanderbilt University
301                    where he studied Computer Engineering and Engineering
302                    Management. Before he joined Hamrick Software, David worked
303                    as an iOS developer, primarily for Mercury Intermedia, where
304                    he was part of a team that developed 3 applications that
305                    were ranked #1 overall in the iOS app store and 14 apps that
306                    were ranked #1 in their category. David currently lives in
307                    Nashville, TN.
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349                        <p class="text-sm font-semibold uppercase tracking-wider text-gray-400">Alternatives</p>
350                        <ul role="list" class="vs-footer-ul">
351                            <li>
352                                <a class="vs-footer-li" href="https://www.hamrick.com/blog/image-capture.html">Image Capture Alternative</a>
353                            </li>
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355                                <a class="vs-footer-li" href="https://www.hamrick.com/blog/windows-scan-app.html">Windows Scan Alternative</a>
356                            </li>
357                            <li>
358                                <a class="vs-footer-li" href="https://www.hamrick.com/naps2-alternative.html">NAPS2 Alternative</a>
359                            </li>
360                            <li>
361                                <a class="vs-footer-li" href="https://www.hamrick.com/silverfast-alternative.html">Silverfast Alternative</a>
362                            </li>
363                        </ul>
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372                                <a class="vs-footer-li" href="https://www.hamrick.com/film-slide-scanning-software.html">
372Film & Slide Scanning Software</a>
373                            </li>
374                            <li>
375                                <a class="vs-footer-li" href="https://www.hamrick.com/linux-scanner-software.html">Linux Scanner Software</a>
376                            </li>
377                            <li>
378                                <a class="vs-footer-li" href="https://www.hamrick.com/macos-scanner-software.html">macOS Scanner Software</a>
379                            </li>
380                            <li>
381                                <a class="vs-footer-li" href="https://www.hamrick.com/pdf-scanner.html">PDF Scanner</a>
382                            </li>
383                            <li>
384                                <a class="vs-footer-li" href="https://www.hamrick.com/photo-scanning-software.html">Photo Scanning Software</a>
385                            </li>
386                            <li>
387                                <a class="vs-footer-li" href="https://www.hamrick.com/windows-10-scanner-software.html">Windows 10 Scanner Software</a>
388                            </li>
389                            <li>
390                                <a class="vs-footer-li" href="https://www.hamrick.com/scan-to-pdf.html">Scan to PDF</a>
391                            </li>
392                        </ul>
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395                        <p class="text-sm font-semibold uppercase tracking-wider text-gray-400">Scanner Drivers</p>
396                        <ul role="list" class="vs-footer-ul">
397                            <li>
398                                <a class="vs-footer-li" href="https://www.hamrick.com/vuescan/canon.html">Canon Scanner Software</a>
399                            </li>
400                            <li>
401                                <a class="vs-footer-li" href="https://www.hamrick.com/vuescan/hp.html">HP Scanner Software</a>
402                            </li>
403                            <li>
404                                <a class="vs-footer-li" href="https://www.hamrick.com/vuescan/epson.html">Epson Scanner Software</a>
405                            </li>
406                            <li>
407                                <a class="vs-footer-li" href="https://www.hamrick.com/vuescan/brother.html">Brother Scanner Software</a>
408                            </li>
409                        </ul>
410                    </div>
411                </div>
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