Question Anyone still have a scanner?

[pete6032]

I know my phone can do it but there's something satisfying about stacking the papers down and watching it generate a perfect pdf on my hard drive. Used to do it at work but with work from home I no longer have consistent access. Anyone still using one at home? What are you using?

 

[Muadib]

I use my AIO printer.

 

[In2Photos]

Yup, I have 2 different AIO printers and scan stuff at least once a month, mostly work related.

 

[Jimminy]

I know my phone can do it but there's something satisfying about stacking the papers down and watching it generate a perfect pdf on my hard drive. Used to do it at work but with work from home I no longer have consistent access. Anyone still using one at home? What are you using?

I have an ancient cannon Lide 20 scanner that's so old I can't find any software that will run on anything later than win XP. No problem though, I just run windows XP in a virtual box. Took a little fiddling setting it all up, but works perfectly

 

[tcsenter]

I have an ancient cannon Lide 20 scanner that's so old I can't find any software that will run on anything later than win XP. No problem though, I just run windows XP in a virtual box. Took a little fiddling setting it all up, but works perfectly

Those should be compatible/useable on Windows 10/11 even, since it is not a boot device? Would need to manually extract the INF and driver binaries. Heck Microsoft Update might just have a compatible driver for it. Another reported solution here using LiDE 60 64-bit driver for W7.

I have an Epson Perfection 3590 Photo packed away here, haven't used it in about eight years.

 

[Jimminy]

Cannon stopped making the drivers for this model back when it was discontinued.. I was never able to find anything that worked and I tried dozens of possibillities. Gave up after spending probably a hundred hours of effort on this Lide 20, though from looking, I could see it was possible with a LOT of their old scanners.

 

[tcsenter]

As long as its not a boot device, 64-bit Windows can use a lot of older 32-bit drivers e.g. for XP. The installer executable is often the problem. The driver INF and binaries can be extracted from the driver 'package' .zip or exe, then Windows manually pointed to the INF file using the 'update driver' dialogue that gives the option to select which driver, device, and location of the files. a.k.a. "have disk" method

 

[bba-tcg]

As part of a nice HP MFP color laserjet, yes.

 

[tcsenter]

I have an Epson Perfection 3590 Photo packed away here, haven't used it in about eight years.

Well I guess I don't. I couldn't find it and then remember I set it out a couple years ago for ewaste pickup with a bunch of other PC stuff, scrap metal, etc

 

[mindless1]

I primarily use my Brother AIO scanner, as a network scanner to push scans to any system running their app, but also have a station with a Visioneer Onetouch 8100, which will just work with Win7 if you do something to finesse the driver, so hooked up to the win7 box.

Another system has a Canon 4400F, probably the best scan quality of the 3, which hasn't any driver offered past Win8.1 x64, but like the 8100 is a Twain interface scanner, so I can use a 3rd party app on newer OS like Win10/11, and just stuck with the first one that worked, NAPS2... which must be set to use Twain mode, then just works.

Windows Scanning - NAPS2

www.naps2.com

I have to laugh when the OP tries to compare a pic from a phone with a decent quality scanner's output. There's no contest, phones are terrible compared to a decent scanner. It's not just the resolution but also the aspect ratio, determining the angle, the further away from center of the image, and the depth of focus, as long as it's a decent scanner not some CIS engine rubbish which is only good for the flattest of flat, text documents.

Here's a motherboard I scanned almost 30 years ago. Scanners have improved a bit, since then. Disclaimer: I think I might have photoshopped the text on the chipset N/S bridges.