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TWAIN Sane and Mac OS X Lion

Hi everyone,

last year I bought a MacBook with Snow Leopard and, while installing the drivers for my scanner (Canon CanoScan N676U), I found out that it was not compatible with Mac OS X 10.6. So I tried to search a solution to my problem with Google and I found a very interesting project.

So I installed TWAIN Sane (all the links can be found in my old discussion https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2506911?answerId=11962603022#11962603022).

Now I would like to upgrade to Lion whenever it comes out but I fear that TWAIN Sane could be not compatible with the new OS. What do you think? Is there anyone who has installed and tried it with the new OS (maybe a developer)? I've already tried to send an email to the developer of the "solution" (I don't know if it can be properly called a "software"), but so far he hasn't sent me a reply.

Thank you in advance to anyone who tries to help me!

Mac Book (mid 2010), Mac OS X (10.6.7)

Posted on Jul 14, 2011 1:56 PM

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Kappy

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Posted on Jul 14, 2011 2:02 PM

We don't know. TWAIN Sane is a third-party software so it's up to it's developer to make it compatible (assuming it no longer is.) All we can tell you is to install it and try it out.

Even had a developer tested it with a Lion seed he/she could not discuss it here.

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boninmi

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Nov 30, 2012 1:10 AM in response to Jolivia

I don't know why I am five stars. My pseudo was *****. I think Apple just thinks it not politically correct.

I'm french. The first english lesson when I was a boy was "My name is *****. ***** is a cat". 🙂

Definitly, this word p-u-s-s-y is not politically correct. The forum editor replaced it systematically by five stars.😍

antmarmo

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Nov 19, 2014 3:01 PM in response to marcoto90

I installed TWAIN SANE but my scanjet 3300C didn't work.

I read the documentation and I got the idea that you have to search your model in the documentation and then you have to paste it in the sane config window of SANE preference utility.

I put something like this:

# Hewlett-Packard|ScanJet 3300C

libusbscanner 0x0003 0x03f0 0x0305 0x0000

I read that my model use libusbscanner instead usb, so I wrote /dev/usbscanner in the config file window (macosx->preference->sane)

# Uncomment the following if you have "Error during device I/O" on SCSI

# option dumb-read

# The usual place for a SCSI-scanner on Linux

/dev/scanner

/dev/usbscanner

# Hewlett-Packard|ScanJet 3300C

libusbscanner 0x0003 0x03f0 0x0305 0x0000

# Uncomment the following if your scanner is connected by USB,

# but you are not using libusb

#/dev/usb/scanner0

#option connect-device

Later, you have to go to macosx->preference->printers and fax, and then you have to add the scanner using the wizard (push the + bottom)

Finally open the preview app and select import from scanners…

but this doesn't work for me.

Finally I installed VIRTUALBOX app and the a UBUNTU LINUX distro.

Then connect your scanner.

Open ubuntu. Below in the ubuntu window you have to choose the scanner in the USB icon. This is more important thing.

This is the reason why Ubuntu can see the scanner via USB.

Later open de "simple scan" app.

This app works at the first time.

You don't have to do more.

and that's all..

It's amazing that Linux can do scanning at the first time and MacOSX don't...

Why??

TWAIN Sane and Mac OS X Lion