Cannon Scanner LiDE 600F will not work with Maverick ?

Although I have not had time to resolve this Canon driver issue, I have found a great alternative. The iPhone 5s with its 8MP camera and light-sensitive pixels, is a fantastic document camera. In some respects, it's way better than a scanner. Even if I had my Canon scanner working, I would use it only for photo scans or when document size proportions are critical or archival priority. Scanners are good for that but othrwise might soon be obsolete for most documents. Scanners are becoming archaic given their slowness. I love them for archiving very old photos as TIFFs mostly.

In the 7 days that I've had my new iPhone, I have photographed over a thousand index cards full of notes, receipts, business cards, news articles and other things. Using my iPhone is way faster than using any scanner. I import these snapshots into iPhoto daily and use the edit/rotate function if they need rotation.

The quality of iPhone document snapshots is absolutely astonishing. And I'm just holding the iPhone by hand, not even mounted to keep it perfectly still The iPhone autofocus is extremely sharp. With moderate diffused light, I can even shoot a huge article occupying most of a newspaper page after I have underlined everything of interest. It picks up even the finest print used in photo credits. The sharpness of the camera seems better than the human eye.

The file size on iPhone doc shots is a factor to consider but not excessive compared to my typical 150 line per inch document scanning. You can always do batch image size/resulution changes in a photo editor like Photoshop. Or you can shoot each doc from a greater distance and crop them in iPhoto to reduce file size. But I generally don't bother.

Naturally you may want to hold the iPhone close or far to photograph only what you want. You can easily improvise a copy stand by cutting a view hole in an upside down clear plastic box. Search "images copy stand for iphone" and you will find lots of iPhone copy stands you can purchase or improvise. I suspect that iPhone copy stands are going to become a hot trend especially if someone makes one that is adjustable height and pocket foldable. And I would imagine there will be an app for iPhone doc snapping with variable resolution, if such an app does not already exist. Doc snapping is about to come of age.

Another nice thing about using iPhone as a doc-cam is that you can keep your scanner off the desktop except for special projects like scanning photos. I love my iPhone 5s. Sorry Canon!

To all and sundry: if you have tried all the tips here for 10.9 and your 600f still does not work, give a try to swapping out the scanner's USB cable for another one.

I'm on 10.9, installed the 10.8 driver and toolbox, and still got the "couldn't load driver" message when opening the toolbox and when clicking on the "scan" button.

On a whim, because it happened to be on the table next to me, I connected the scanner with a short USB cable that (I believe) I got with a detachable 500G drive. It is slightly thicker than the cable that came with the scanner, looks like it's about 18" in length as opposed to the about 4-feet length of the scanner cable, and does not have the little cylinders that the scanner cable has at either end.

When I connected the scanner using this cable, my 10.9 recognized the scanner immediately. I am now happily scanning away like a mofo. No lie.

PS. My apologies for the weird description, but the fact is I have no idea why the cable swap worked (the scanner cable worked fine last time I used it, when I was not yet on 10.9) and I want to give someone more wise in the ways of USB cables something to go on, should it be possible to diagnose this.

this solved my issue - now if only i could figure out how to give you folks points.😝

Congratulations, sparkane, but unfortunately switching USB cables did not solve the problem for me. Checking the cable was of course one of the first things I tried, and, motivated by your success, it has now been my very last one too. After all I tried all sorts of available USB connectors with no result, but anyhow - I cleaned up an impressive assembly of USB-cables now.

Thanks to all the suggestions, but like Schact, I did a clean install of Mavericks after I replaced a hard drive that failed with a new one. None of the suggestions worked for me.

The thing about the Canon 600F is that it has a lid that folds back 180 degrees for scanning large objects like maps. If it wasn't for this one need, I probably wouldn't own an item such as this scanner. None of the Canon scanners in their current line up have this feature. I found an Epson that will do the job. Good bye, Canon.

More specific to the Lide 600F. VueScan support for this scanner requires installed Canon drivers.

As for the VueScan price. I purchased the professional license that offers unlimited updates. That was five years ago and Hamrick is prolific with his updates.

you can try the 700f drivers and see what happens.

Thank you!! Worked for me also

I downloaded and tested VueScan (direct from from Hamrick) for my Canon LIDE 600F scanner. It works fine under OS 10.9 Mavericks but puts multiple ugly watermarks on every scanned image until you pay for it. It seems to be a robust scanning utility with everything I normally use as a professional photographer.

VueScan seems expensive but may be worth it. It's $40 for the Standard edition with one year of updates. You have to pay $80 for the Professional edition with unlimited updates, OCR, raw scans, ICC profiles and IT8 calibration. Or you can buy a new Canon LIDE 700F scanner for $91 from BH Photo or buy some other new scanner possibly cheaper.

I'm going to pay the $80 for VueScan Pro because it's said to be one of the most widely used scan utilities and because it works with 2,300 scanners and because I hate shortgap solutions even if they work. I think VueScan will fill my needs for years to come. There is also a "VueScan Bible" (176 pages) available from RockyNook for another $35.

I upgraded my i7 Macbook to Maverick a bit too early. The beginning was painful but it's OK now although a bit slower than before a freezing occasionally. On the Canon website the newest Driver for Canoscan LIDE600 and CanoScan Toolbox are indicated up to OSX 8. After migrating to Mavericks, I installed the above newest divers and CanoScan Toolbox. It works normally. So don't buy a new scanner. Moreover, the LIDE600 which works CanoScan toolbox, seems to be discontinued and the LIDE 700 seems not to work with CanoScan. I am not aware of any software which like cannoscan, is able to scan eight A4 pages at 300 DPI for only 3MB.

So, i headed over to the Canon Website and downloaded the Driver for OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.

Also I downloaded the CanoScan Toolbox Ver. 5.0.1.4 from here.

The System does not recognize the Scanner - but the Toolbox fires it up no problem.

Good luck.

NOTICE:

if you need colors you MUST buy the professional edition.

I just followed @conix's procedure, and the new Toolbox works for me. I did an upgrade from OSX 10.6; not a fresh install. I don't have to go back to 10.6 just because my scanner isn't supported!...

FWIW It worked with the original USB cable for me.

Thank you SO MUCH! I've just spent hours trying to fix this and your link to the download was my saviour!