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16th Oct 2021, 10:51 PM
	Juke Jules SUBS Tell me he's lazy, tell me he's slow Member since Jan 2011 4135 Points Moderator	When you update your PC to Win10 you may find you no longer have the drivers for your pre-Win10 scanner. If it was working perfectly under the old OS you may be reluctant to buy a new scanner, particularly if it's A3 size. Not-too-old scanners may have Win10 s/w to download from the manufacturer's 'support' section but my Mustek A3 is way too old for that. Pending replacing it (I'm not sure what A2 scanners are available for home/office use now anyway) I got out a portable USB A4 scanner I bought a few years ago specifically for scanning other people's records when visiting - turns out it was too many years ago for a s/w update (unless you are running Mac). It's a Canon LiDE 210 and it's only ever done about 20 scans (for 45cat) so I asked a passing IT consultant isn't there any... Quick as a flash he said VueScan so I downloaded the trial version and started scanning stuff. What about the Mustek? No problem, the VueScan website lists hundreds of scanners it has been proven for, but it should drive any kind of scanner with a Twain interface. Fortunately the Mustek has a USB port; parallel ports would need a hardware adaptor. The guy's website says to email him any questions so I asked about the de-screen options and next time I checked my emails he had replied saying yes, and to look in the help files, so I bought the 'home' edition. A one-time payment of £30 seemed very fair to get at least two workings scanners. You can install on 4 machines operating on most Windows, MacOS and Linux versions, and you can upgrade to the full Pro version at a discounted price. The full version has any imaginable option, including batch scanning, scanning to multi-page PDF, and OCR which is what you need if you want machine-readable documents so you can search or copy text. I scan a lot of technical documents so that would be nice, but for now I'll continue to create image PDFs using Image To PDF or XPS Try it on your favourite scanner or an old skip-find peripheral!