I love the Internet

I like the people helping people aspect of it, at least. I couldn’t get my Canon LiDE 70 scanner to work in Yosemite because Apple just sort of dropped TWAIN support and forgot to tell me and Canon sort of forgot about this scanner since OS X Lion.

The scanner would occasionally work but recently the Canon scanning utilities have starting saying that I had no scanner connected. Fortunately I found a blog that suggested what was missing was the TWAINBridge.app and provided an installer for it.

I could never get the CanoScan Toolbox utility to operate the scanner, but that was no great loss. However, the ImageCapture utility now recognizes the scanner and I’m good until Apple releases El Capitan, when I may have to go through this all over again. My seven year old scanner may soon reach the end of the line, but for now, thanks to Jan Egil, I can get by for a little while longer.

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Jennifer Petkus divides her time between writing Jane Austen-themed mysteries, creating websites for the dead, woodworking, aikido and building model starships. She has few credentials, having failed to graduate from the University of Texas with a journalism degree, but did manage to find employment at the Colorado Springs Sun newspaper as a cop reporter, copy editor and night city editor before the paper died in 1986. She has done little since. Her husband is the night editor at The Denver Post. Her best friend is a cop. She watched Neil Armstrong walk on the Moon live. She is the author of, Good Cop, Dead Cop: A Novel about the AfterNet. She’s writing the sequel, The Background Noise of Souls, and another AfterNet related story, Jane Austen’s Book Tour.

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