Scanner
Scanner is a physical document scanning utility for macOS that integrates with hardware scanners connected to the Mac. It appears designed to facilitate scanning documents, letters and other paper materials into digital form, likely for business workflows involving document archiving, management and sharing. The app uses the macOS Image Capture framework to communicate with supported scanner hardware.
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1 suggestionWe could not confirm whether a native Apple Silicon build of Scanner exists. The bundle ID (COM.GILBERT.PhysicalScanner) suggests this may be a smaller or specialised utility, and we found no clear information about its current development status or architecture support in the available search results. Since Scanner appears to be a business tool that relies on hardware integration via macOS Image Capture drivers, two things matter: first, confirm that your scanner hardware itself has native Apple Silicon driver support (check the manufacturer's support page — Canon, Epson, Brother and others have released native drivers); and second, contact the Scanner app developer directly to ask whether a native build exists or is planned. If the developer is no longer active or cannot confirm native Apple Silicon support, consider VueScan (a third-party scanning utility that explicitly supports both Intel and Apple Silicon Macs and works with most scanner hardware) or PDFScanner (a Mac App Store app with confirmed native Apple Silicon support, offering one-click document scanning and OCR). With Rosetta 2 disappearing in macOS 28 (September 2028), it is important to settle this before then — an Intel-only Scanner app will not launch on that release.
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