Canon LiDE 50 alternative driver

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Canon LiDE 50 alternative driver

Hello, I have a Canoscan LiDE 50, and I realized that I can't use the scanner on Snow leopard because Canon did not update the driver. Even the VueScan application requires LiDE 50 drivers to be installed first. Now, I have read that someone wrote a modified LiDE 60 driver that can be applied on this model as well to be used on 64 bit Windows 7.
Is there a similar modified driver for Snow leopard or a way to install drivers of a newer model?
I really don't want to buy a new scanner just because Canon stopped working on a software update.

Thanks!

Mac OS X (10.6.2)

Posted on Jan 10, 2010 3:02 PM

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Answer 1

Jan 10, 2010 4:22 PM in response to Waldfee

Waldfee wrote:
Hello, I have a Canoscan LiDE 50, and I realized that I can't use the scanner on Snow leopard because Canon did not update the driver. Even the VueScan application requires LiDE 50 drivers to be installed first. Now, I have read that someone wrote a modified LiDE 60 driver that can be applied on this model as well to be used on 64 bit Windows 7.
Is there a similar modified driver for Snow leopard or a way to install drivers of a newer model?
I really don't want to buy a new scanner just because Canon stopped working on a software update.

I haven't looked at the details of this product, but you might want to investigate SilverFast for Canon:

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/16985

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Waldfee Author

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Jan 11, 2010 3:03 AM in response to Waldfee

I finally got it to work! I downloaded the SANE drivers, which also support the LiDE 50.
http://www.ellert.se/twain-sane/

All I did was downloading and installing the 4 packages SANE Preference Pane, SANE backends, libusb and TWAIN SANE Interface.

VueScan still doesn't work, and even a special scanner software written for SANE drivers called "Scan Again" showed an error message. But Photoshop CS4 works when installing the Photoshop TWAIN plugin from adobe:
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=4047

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