My old trusty Canoscan LIDE 50 scanner has been brilliant, it still works today.
After a fair bit of digging, despite Canon not offering direct 64bit support for the LIDE 50 scanner, I found a "hacked LIDE 50 / 60 hybrid driver which apparently works. Scanner is detected in W7 as a fully working Canoscan LIDE 50 scanner
Next problem, and a final fatal blow: W7 is now using the WIA architecture, replacing TWAIN. And as a result, this needs WIA driver support and not TWAIN. And Canon have confirmed they won't provide 64bit WIA support for their scanners.
So whilst a hack could have had the scanner running on 64bit 2k / Vista via TWAIN, if you have Windows 7, you're screwed because of the new WIA-only support
It looks like I now have to get a new scanner. Well, it won't be a CanonIn reality, I might just have to use my work lappy instead as that still has good old 32bit Win XP which works
Link to the discussion on MS technet: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/...1-053bb060cc37


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: W7 is now using the WIA architecture, replacing TWAIN. And as a result, this needs WIA driver support and not TWAIN. And Canon have confirmed they won't provide 64bit WIA support for their scanners.
In reality, I might just have to use my work lappy instead as that still has good old 32bit Win XP which works
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