Drivers for Canon Scanner rage!

Mr Badger

Mr Badger

Mr Badger

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Haven't used my scanner (CanoScan FB630U) in quite a while, but needed to scan something this evening so I connected it up and discovered that it doesn't work with Windows 7 or 8 as Canon don't seem to have provided a driver for it since XP. And I don't have any computers here with XP installed on them.

The only option I've found by searching is some software called VueScan, which I have not heard of before and costs $50. Has anyone tried it?

Is there any sort of work around, or do I just have a large scanner shaped paperweight?

If this question would be better suited to another forum then please move it.
 
I had the same problem with a HP Scanjet 3400C, and VueScan doesn't support it. Luckily I have an old XP system available to use it still so haven't had to consider virtual machine or dual boot as an option.

VueScan is safe to use, but you can buy a new scanner or a combined printer/scanner for less or equal price.
 
Have you tried installing the Win XP driver? As brief search shows some people got it working, but lack specific details for repeating it.
 
I used to have a Canon Lide20 scanner for which Canon helpfully declined to provide 64-bit drivers, no doubt hoping that I'd throw away perfectly good hardware and buy a new one.

I worked around it by installing the Canoscan drivers in a VMware XP virtual machine (also tried it with VirtualBox, but I was never able to get USB passthrough working reliably). VMware Player is free if you happen to have a spare copy of XP lying around, although I'd suggest you block WAN access to the VM, particularly after XP goes out of extended support in April. If you have Win7 Pro or above, you'll also have XP mode of course.

VueScan is excellent and much more sophisticated than most bog standard scanner software, but you could buy a pretty decent new scanner for the money as pointed out above.
 
We have just got some new scanners at work - Canon Lide210. Possibly one of the worst pieces of software I have ever used, just terrible.
 
Thank you all for the responses. I have Windows 8 Pro - does that allow me to run an XP emulation? I'm probably being a bit slow, but if it does I can't readily see how to go about it.
 
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