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04-12-2007, 11:05 PM
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Location: Melbourne
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Canon N1240U scanner in Leopard
I have a Canon N1240U scanner. I have managed to get it to scan using the Canon software itself. I can't seem to find a TWAIN driver for it though - does a TWAIN driver for this scanner exist in OSX? I want to use it with software that will need either TWAIN or OSX Image Capture support. Any suggestions? Is it possible that there already is a TWAIN driver installed, it just wasn't installed properly?
(I already had to mess around with permissions to get the basic software to install properly in the first place)
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"Algorithms that forget their history are doomed to repeat it" - Artificial Intelligence, A Modern Approach (Russel & Norvig)
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04-12-2007, 11:19 PM
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Clinically Insane
Group: Regulars
Location: Sydney, Australia
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05-12-2007, 01:38 PM
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Thanks CW, but that's where I've got all the (very shitty, shitty, shitty quality) drivers and software from already.
Just in case anyone was in any doubt, Canon's installer App doesn't set the right permissions on various folders in /Library, and thus can't complete it's own install. Mind bogglingly stupid. Then there's the software itself....
Check this out for a "warning message" when you hit "Scan":
WTF?  I don't think whoever wrote this software either uses a mac or speaks english regularly....
I'm now investigating SANE-TWAIN. Apparently they do open-source/free drivers for image acquisition hardware. Here's hoping...
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"A company must go out and find what the customer wants ... The need is not for, say, half a million ¼-inch drill bits. The needs is that there are ten million ¼-inch holes that need to be drilled." - Robert Noyce
"Algorithms that forget their history are doomed to repeat it" - Artificial Intelligence, A Modern Approach (Russel & Norvig)
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05-12-2007, 02:29 PM
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Group: Forum Leaders
Location: Sydney
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Vuescan might support, thus you can scan in stuff using it. I am using an old HP scanner and Vuescan supports it. So the old hardware still has some use, using it to scan in cd covers from our audio cd's as I import them to iTunes.
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05-12-2007, 02:44 PM
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Yeah Vuescan can see it.... but it crashes while scanning. At least it did when I tried before my 5th driver re-install. I actually want to use this scanner to develop some software that works with scanners - so I need a TWAIN driver or something similar. The final software needs to work with other scanners too.
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"A company must go out and find what the customer wants ... The need is not for, say, half a million ¼-inch drill bits. The needs is that there are ten million ¼-inch holes that need to be drilled." - Robert Noyce
"Algorithms that forget their history are doomed to repeat it" - Artificial Intelligence, A Modern Approach (Russel & Norvig)
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05-12-2007, 04:39 PM
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I installed SANE, and TWAIN-SANE, and after some dicking around (in the end I had to uninstall all the Canon junk), it works! Perfectly! Thank you OSS!
And a big middle finger to Canon for E-grade software and drivers.
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"A company must go out and find what the customer wants ... The need is not for, say, half a million ¼-inch drill bits. The needs is that there are ten million ¼-inch holes that need to be drilled." - Robert Noyce
"Algorithms that forget their history are doomed to repeat it" - Artificial Intelligence, A Modern Approach (Russel & Norvig)
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05-12-2007, 08:15 PM
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OK, after reading a few other threads about people having trouble with their Canon scanners on Tiger/Leopard, I thought I'd detail exactly what I did to get mine working with TWAIN (which means it works flawlessly in Image Capture, Photoshop etc.).
First step, is to remove the Canon drivers. If you go to the Canon website to download drivers for your scanner, you have the option of downloading an uninstall utility. Download, and run it.
Next step, is to install TWAIN-SANE. Go to this page: http://www.ellert.se/twain-sane/
Then download the following (binary, not SDK) for the appropriate operating system:
- TWAIN SANE Interface
- SANE Preference Pane
- SANE Backends
- libusb
When you have downloaded them all, install them in the following order:
- libusb
- SANE Backends
- SANE Preference Pane
- TWAIN SANE Interface
You can install them in any order, but TWAIN SANE Interface depends on SANE Backends which depends on.... etc. The installer will tell you if you need to install something else first.
That's all I had to do. To see if your scanner is compatible with TWAIN SANE, look at this list: http://www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html
The only thing that stopped it working straight up for me was that the shitty Canon drivers were still installed. Once they were gone, it worked perfectly!
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"A company must go out and find what the customer wants ... The need is not for, say, half a million ¼-inch drill bits. The needs is that there are ten million ¼-inch holes that need to be drilled." - Robert Noyce
"Algorithms that forget their history are doomed to repeat it" - Artificial Intelligence, A Modern Approach (Russel & Norvig)
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09-11-2008, 01:51 PM
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Group: Regulars
Location: living in the lovely Byron Shire
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Hey forgie - I tried going to the sites you noted: I can not seem to be able to dl the files!
Do you have a copy of them, or know of any other place to dl them?
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09-11-2008, 01:56 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by will
Hey forgie - I tried going to the sites you noted: I can not seem to be able to dl the files!
Do you have a copy of them, or know of any other place to dl them?
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It's been a while, and I don't have a copy of the original installers, sorry.
edit: I've emailed the owner of the website (which is currently giving 403 errors on every page request), so I'll hopefully get a response as to what's going on with TWAIN-SANE.
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"A company must go out and find what the customer wants ... The need is not for, say, half a million ¼-inch drill bits. The needs is that there are ten million ¼-inch holes that need to be drilled." - Robert Noyce
"Algorithms that forget their history are doomed to repeat it" - Artificial Intelligence, A Modern Approach (Russel & Norvig)
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09-11-2008, 02:04 PM
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Location: living in the lovely Byron Shire
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Thanks for that - my 1220U has been sittng idle: I want to use it again. I appreciate your repsonse and help.
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09-11-2008, 02:16 PM
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You're in luck, I just found a copy of all the installation files on my Macbook. They may be slightly out of date (probably about 10 months old) but they work. I've uploaded them to here.
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"A company must go out and find what the customer wants ... The need is not for, say, half a million ¼-inch drill bits. The needs is that there are ten million ¼-inch holes that need to be drilled." - Robert Noyce
"Algorithms that forget their history are doomed to repeat it" - Artificial Intelligence, A Modern Approach (Russel & Norvig)
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09-11-2008, 02:20 PM
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Location: living in the lovely Byron Shire
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huge thank u!
I am dl as I type.
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09-11-2008, 02:43 PM
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Group: Regulars
Location: living in the lovely Byron Shire
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Update:
I have installed the files onto my G4 MDD - running 10.5.4 = working with scanner (excellent)
I have installed the files onto my Macbook Pro - running 10.5.4 = when it asks to scan, I selected the SANE option from the drop down menu = success!!
Thank you Forgie!
Yee hah!
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09-11-2008, 08:19 PM
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No worries, glad to be able to help!
Mattias Ellert (who hosts the TWAIN-SANE project) just replied to my email, saying that the permissions on his server got screwed up after a server update, and that he's fixed it now, so the original links should work again.
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"A company must go out and find what the customer wants ... The need is not for, say, half a million ¼-inch drill bits. The needs is that there are ten million ¼-inch holes that need to be drilled." - Robert Noyce
"Algorithms that forget their history are doomed to repeat it" - Artificial Intelligence, A Modern Approach (Russel & Norvig)
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