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    Flatbed scanner issues tackled

    Discussion in 'Panasonic' started by gijoe4us, Nov 19, 2011.

  1. gijoe4us

    gijoe4us Notebook Consultant

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    I have a really old, Acer, BenQ, Prisa USB flatbed scanner. I did not want to buy a new one to work with my Win7 64 Bit system. I did find a work around via VueScan by Hamrick Software. They are online and offer 2 different downloads. 1 for 40 bucks and one for 80. The second is a professional version. Downloaded it and tried it with Adobe Acrobat (Full) and worked great!!!! Check him out if you don't want to throw away a perfectly good scanner that won't work with a 64 bit system. Last problem REPAIRED!!!! Yeah!
     
    gijoe4us, Nov 19, 2011
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  2. John Hawk

    John Hawk Notebook Enthusiast

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    Yep, VueScan is great for old scanners if there's no up to date drivers for your OS.
     
    John Hawk, Nov 20, 2011
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    Waldeck Notebook Consultant

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    Sometimes your old Scaners, Printers will work with the new OS's, you just have to get in to the newest driver for that equipment and before you run it delete a line of code that stops it running on the newer OS's, ie. Vista on. Not sure why they do this :D Bob.
     
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