El Capitan Killed My Scanner

Canon Lide 220

MacMini late 2012

Mac OS X 10.11.5

1. Trash the Canon Utilities Folder;

2. Trash User/Library/Preferences/Canon;

3. Reboot your Mac;

4. Install the latest ICA Driver, then IJ Scan Utility 2 and IJ ScanGear (download them from Canon website);

5. Reboot;

6. Check System Preferences/Printers-Scanners - Scan Button “Open Image Capture” NOT Canon IJ Scan Utility

7. Press “PDF button” on your scanner - you’ll get an Image capture window opened with no scanner present;

8. Close the window;

9. Open manually “IJ Scan Utility” - you’ll get a window explaining how to use your scanner buttons.

It’s a little tricky, but worked for me. There’s still a bug in the driver: if you press “PDF button” on the scanner you can’t see any scanner in the Capture image window; on the contrary, if you manually open Image Capture, you get the scanner on the left, that's quite strange...

IJ ScanGear Starter GX still remains for me the best app for my Lide 220.

I have a CanScan Lide 100. I removed all software related to Canon (using CleanApp), then opened Image Capture and, from the Menu, chose "Reset Twain Drivers." It identified my scanner and opened a scan window. It took about a minute to calibrate, and then the scanner was ready to use. I then scanned some pages, and it worked!

I have an epson GT-S50 Scanner and after upgrading to El Cap, I had same issue. The answer that hj.b gives worked perfect. I reset the Twain in Image Capture. When I started the Scanner program, I was given a choice to use Image Capture or Twain and I chose Twain and it worked. I still have a few hairs on my head. Thanks hj.b.

Or, maybe Apple will provide something...

No, thats not how it works, vendors write drivers etc for operating systems, not the other way around. Apple have made Sierra available to developers for half a year now, most have managed to write software, some (like Canon) have written apologies instead.

Not sure, if you still have the above problem. It took me about 2 days to find the right solution, that worked for me on Mac OS 10.11.5 (iMac) and Mac OS 10.11.1 (Macbook Pro):

a) Delete all previous versions of VueScan (ideally with a program like CleanMyMac, including preference files (vuescan.ini, vuescan.log, com.hamrick.vuescan.plist)

b) Install the 32-bit version of VueScan Pro 9.5.37 - I uploaded vuex3295.dmg here: goo.gl/rlvlqH

c) Install LiDE 90 Scanner Driver Ver. 13.9.2a from here: http://goo.gl/zVIKoi

Let me know, if it worked for you too (if you have not given up already).

Whatever else you do avoid CleanMyMac as if it it were the Plague

I actually did not encounter any problems with CleanMyMac so far. But I do admit, that I sometimes only use it to find/identify all files, that are associated with an application and then delete these files individually without using CleanMyMac 🙂. I also block all outgoing connections with Little Snitch for CleanMyMac, so maybe that's the reason, why I did not have any issues.

My Canoscan Lide 500F was working fine until El Capitan came along......Apple needs to straighten this out!

It is Canon's responsibility to write the drivers for their products, not Apple's.

You might be able to find a driver here.

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