Windows 7: Canoscan LiDE 35 Windows 7 64bit driver

LIDE35 Scanner works with Windows 8

Hi. I am trying to get my LIDE35 scanner to work in windows 8 but am posting in the windows 7 forum because of your combined expertise on the LIDE35. I have tried installing the LIDE60 32 bit driver but windows 8 eventually refuses to co-operate and states that the LIDE35 is correctly installed. If I select Get Photos in Photoshop Organiser I can select the LIDE35 scanner and scan an image. I can then import the image into photoshop and save it from there. However an impotant use of my scanner is to create pdf documents and I can no longer do this.

Has anyone any ideas as to how to do this. Can told me t use the scanner on an old computer or buy a new scanner.

PROBLEM SOLVED

I simply had to uninstall the LIDE35 driver then install the LIDE60 driver and go through the steps explained in the previous posts. Thanks.

John Rogers

Like some other people, I followed your steps, but I kept getting a "TWAIN source unavailable" error (the wording might be slightly different).

I uninstalled and re-installed the LiDE 60 driver several times, tried the CanoScan Toolbox versions 4.9 and 4.5 multiple times, all to no avail. I tried to use VueScan instead, because it supposedly fixes scanner compatibility issues. Did not work.

What finally did the trick was this additional step:

I used the File -> Import menu in Photoshop CS3. This listed CanoScan LiDE 60 as an option. This started a Scangear CS menu, which in turn automatically started a callibration of the scanner. I then successfully used the Scangear CS menu to make my first scan with the LiDE 35 scanner!

When this was done, the CanoScan Toolbox 4.9 also recognized the scanner and worked normally.

Hopefully this trick will help other people that have trouble getting the scanner to work. Maybe there is a way to run the Scangear CS program without Photoshop, because I think it's part of the Canon driver. If so, people without Photoshop can try that.

I registered just to post a big "thank you" to scoutfu for his very helpful solution. THANKS!!

My Canon LIDE35 scanner now works in Windows 7 64-bit with SP1 using Canon Toolbox v4.9.

Just one note, I did get the "unable to select the TWAIN source". At first I tried version 4.5 of the toolbox program, but it would not install. It said I had to have WinXP or Win2000.

I found another post that said to try adding the path to the environment variable to the twain folder. I added %SystemRoot%\twain_32\CNQL60 (%SystemRoot% = c:\windows) to the PATH environment variable and it worked perfectly.

Here's some quick steps:

1. Right click Computer icon on desktop. Click "Properties" and a window should appear.
2. Click "Advanced system properties" in upper left corner and a new windows appears.
3. Click the "Advanced" tab at the top.
4. Click "Environment Variables" button in bottom right and a new window appears.
5. In the bottom section, called "System variables", scroll until you see the system variable "Path".
6. Double click "Path" variable. Add "%SystemRoot%\twain_32\CNQL60" to the end of "Variable value" field.
7. IMPORTANT: Be careful not to delete anything that is already there in this field.

I hope this works for others.

Good luck.

Well, scoutfu, I also want to say thanks! I was searching for a picture online of my scanner so I could list it for sale, and found your thread instead, and now my scanner works again! What's really weird is that it had gotten slow and I always thought it was dying but now it's as fast as when it was new. How weird is that!
Just a couple notes for any other late comers:
The link to the driver didn't work so I just googled the driver name and found a canon site with it on there.
Also the links to the CS toolbox yielded software in Spanish or Italian so again I just googled Canoscan toolbox and found a Canon site with version 4.9.
Thanks again!