Comments on: Using a Canon CanoScan LiDE 70 with Mac OSX

By: Howard Huxter

Howard Huxter — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:23:39 +0000

Ooops. Well, as a final fling I deleted everything associated with the scanner (and that involved finding some obscure folders and not just using delete driver) and shut down, rebooted and reinstalled from the original CD supplied with the scanner. Only this time it wanted to boot up OS9 to install so I just did it manually from the CD. (installation
meant scangear driver 7.2 for OS9 and 7.2X for OSX, Canonscan toolbox, Omnipage (installs on OSX but works thru OS9) and Photoshop elements.

I first ran PE and it came up with the same familiar error message. I opened the lid of the scanner and tried again and it started to go and then hung as if the lock was on (it wasn’t). I put an A4 paper on the glass without closing the cover and it started to calibrate. I was then able to scan as normal.

I then tried Omnipage OCR which works via OSX but in OS9 and it worked too. I forget whther it wanted to calibrate or not.

So there is something funny about this whole calibration process.
I may add that I have had this scanner for 6+ years and have been using it continually for OCR and making jpeg/pdf via PE. This problem
began last week when I tried to test an Epson V300 I was thinking of buying from a friend. That was not a pleasant experience and gave rise to this problem. The quality of the scans on the Canon are far superior to the Epson on my computer. PE is great bundled software as is Omnipage for OCR.

The reason I was contemplating the Epson was because it does 4 slides at once without demounting them whereas the LIDE80 does one at a time and you have to demount it. So, I’m now thinking about the 8800F which does the same (4 at once) but what I’d really like to know is: does the OCR software (listed as Omniopage SE1) work uniquely through OSX?

By: Howard Huxter

Howard Huxter — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 01:57:09 +0000

Doing this does NOT work. I have tried virtually everything on the one computer. There is a ‘test scanner’ function in the software somewhere and this works fine so it cannot be a scanner hardware problem as indicated in some other posts on line. It is unfortunate that Canon choose not to respond to the many requests for help on this issue.
On a second computer the scanner works as normal but the calibration function when chosen brings up the same eror message

By: Brent

Brent — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 03:05:00 +0000

Canon has updated it’s LiDE 70 drivers for 10.6 (snow leopard):

http://www.canon.ca/english/index-customersupport.asp?pid=415

Note that there are TWO files needed – the driver, and CanoScan Toolbox. The link to download the driver is on the 2nd page of search results, when you select scanner, LiDE 70, Software & Drivers, and search. The driver file is named “lide70osx1213ej4.dmg”.

By: me

me — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 01:31:40 +0000

>Ha anyone gotten CanoScan Toolbox 5.0 to work for them on an Intel iMac with Leopard?

I’m having same problem.

By: Dina

Dina — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:04:11 +0000

Thank you sooooooo much!

I thought that it was not compatible with my iMac and i was about
to send it back! Then i found your instructions! :)

Thank you again

By: Brent

Brent — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 22:25:17 +0000

A little update: I’m running 10.5.3 now, and I’ve installed the latest drivers (12.13.0) from Canon. The calibration at first was a problem, and I had to remove everything from the scanner bed, and leave the cover open, to get the calibration to complete successfully.

The scans looked terrible, but after that first successful calibration, I was able to calibrate it properly, with a full sheet of printed text on paper, and the cover closed. Then I saved the calibration settings in a new profile.

To answer someone’s earlier question about how to start ScanGear, where the calibration settings are: start the CanoScan Toolbox, click the “Save” button, check-off the “Display the Scanner Driver” option, then click the “Scan” button. ScanGear will open.

In ScanGear, click the Advanced Tab to see the calibration controls. Click the drop-down list (“Custom”) to add and save new calibration profiles.

By: Pete

Pete — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 14:07:18 +0000

I have just upgraded my Tiger to Leopard. And, I can’t get my Lid25 scanner to work. I have done everything! Latest drivers, CanoScan Toolbox to v5.0. I even tried Vuesan which sees the scanner but doesn’t work.
Has anyone with Leopard cracked this yet?

By: Art Hindmarsh

Art Hindmarsh — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 20:58:58 +0000

Will a canon 8000F scanner work on a mac computer?

By: Brent

Brent — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 07:23:39 +0000

Tomy, ScanGear is the driver software that comes with the scanner. You can download the latest version from the Canon website, which I linked to in the article. You can start it either through the other scanning software that comes with the scanner, or via the built-in scanning software in Mac OS X, called Image Capture (Devices menu, I think).

By: tomy

tomy — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 12:18:52 +0000

could anyone help me plis… I don’t know what is the scangear.

I cannot recalibrate my scanner…

Please. thank you.