Canoscan Lide 25 and OS X Mavericks

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Canoscan Lide 25 and OS X Mavericks

One of the first major unwanted changes I've noticed in OS X Mavericks is that it has no driver for Canoscan Lide 25 and neither has Canon. Therefore, this scanner is not detected by Image Capture.

Reinstalling the driver provided by Canon (and not updated since the release of OS X 10.6) does not help.

There is a chance that the scanner is not supported by either company any longer, since it dates back to 2002.

Nevertheless, I am glad to inform all Lide 25 users that there is a workaround:

1. Reinstall the driver for OS X 10.6, available here: http://www.usa.canon.com/cusa/support/consumer/scanners/canoscan_series/canoscan _lide25#DriversAndSoftware

2. Install the Canoscan Toobox application, available from the same page above. It is absolutely compatible with OS X Mavericks AND will detect the driver as soon as it is launched.

It would be nice if Apple could release its own driver, but for the time being I am glad I solved a problem and I want to share this with you.

iMac (27-inch Mid 2010), OS X Mavericks (10.9)

Posted on Oct 24, 2013 12:11 PM

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Answer 1

denisyan

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Mar 25, 2014 12:54 AM in response to Alessandro Cintoli

Thank you for solution!

It really helped!

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Answer 2

Mar 25, 2014 12:56 AM in response to denisyan

You're very welcome, I am glad you found it useful.

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Answer 3

icharn

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Apr 13, 2014 7:15 AM in response to Alessandro Cintoli

Thank you , I got this troble too.

Charn

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Answer 4

Eric Root

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Apr 13, 2014 1:46 PM in response to Alessandro Cintoli

It is up to the printer manufacturer to supply new drivers for their products, not Apple.

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Dibron

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Aug 3, 2014 4:49 AM in response to Alessandro Cintoli

I just wanted to say "Thank you"

I am on 'day 3' of my brand new MacBook Pro - a completely new, and very welcome, experience. So much better than Windows, but very much a learning curve.

Help like yours makes the whole Apple experience wonderful.

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Answer 6

borzy

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Nov 5, 2014 4:13 PM in response to Alessandro Cintoli

Thanks for the guide.

Confirmed that this still works on OSX Yosemite 10.10

After installing both the driver and the tool, once you start up the scanner tool, the scanner kicked to life.

Strange that the installation CD came up with a Power PC application not supported installation error. But this work around has worked fine.

Looks like I won't have to go buy a scanner after all.

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Answer 7

Dec 17, 2014 5:44 AM in response to Alessandro Cintoli

Thanks. Early Christmas gift - new MBPro and friend thought it good to install Yosemite before I even got a chance to learn Maverick. So happy to be able to scan on my CanoScan Lide 25 again, and start moving things over from my old MBPro.

Much appreciated.

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Answer 8

Apr 9, 2015 6:32 AM in response to Alessandro Cintoli

Many, many Thanks, Alessandro! This worked beautifully... 🙂

There is also a system-wide solution for unsupported scanners here: http://macmanus.nl/2015/01/27/fixed-use-unsupported-scanner-in-osx-10-10-yosemit e/

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Answer 9

Nov 14, 2015 6:14 AM in response to Alessandro Cintoli

Thank you! Works for MacBook Pro 2011, OS X 10.11

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Answer 10

Dec 7, 2015 3:01 PM in response to Alessandro Cintoli

Thank you very much. This is the fourth fix I've tried and the only one that has worked. I never could get Image Capture to recognize my scanner, so I selected Preview (instead of Image Capture) as the external program for the Canoscan Toolbox. No problem: I find Preview a breeze to work with, so this couldn't have gone any better.

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Answer 11

Dec 7, 2015 3:32 PM in response to Alessandro Cintoli

Or you can purchase VueScan which will drive your Lide 25without any Canon Drivers necessary. I use VueScan with a CanoScan N650U without issue. I have owned VueScan software for four years and never have paid for an update.

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