20 Most Recent Canon CanoScan LiDE 70 Flatbed Scanner Questions & Answers

Firstly you need to download the latest Canon MF Toolbox from the Canon website. . Once downloaded, install the application. Once installed, right click on the application icon and select Move to the compatibility tab and select the checkbox behind "Run this program in compatibility mode for" From the drop-down list, select "Windows 7"

Do a "reset".
•Go into the CanoScan toolbox,
•click Settings,
•click the Defaults button on the bottom
•then click OK.
It will take a few seconds to reset and you should be good to go.

Can you take a screen shot? or Try uninstall and re-install the scanner on your Mac

5,205,154 code is the act of scanning paper money and it is not allowed to prevent acts of counterfeiting

Your scanner does NOT appear to be a network device over ethernet which is when an IP address is necessary. Connect it over USB ? Canon CanoScan LiDE 70 Canon UK

Yes, but you have to use a special program called an "OCR" (Optical Character Recognizer) which will "read" the document from the scan. A scanner only produces a picture of a document, and it requries special software to "read" that image and make it editable.
The LIDE 70 comes with OMNIPAGE SE (special edition) which will work for simple documents. For more complex documents, you may need to buy the full edition of OMNIPAGE or another OCR package like FineReader. It is also built in fto software like OneNote and Evernote.
The top 5 free OCR tools are here:
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/top-5-free-ocr-software-tools-to-convert-your-images-into-text-nb/

the scanner is to old to run on windows 7.

You can try an operate it under say XP, just look under windows help for compatible issues to explain how to select it.

Double-check all connections and try another port if possible. There may also be damage to cables or pins. Do you have another cable to try? Do other devices work in the same port?

Im not sure if this specific scanner has one But what it would do is calibrate the lights in the scanner to pick up colors better and it would calibrate the position of the scanning bar.

There is no power button on mine. It gets its power from the high speed usb so it is always ready. Every time I boot up my mac I hear the scanner go thru a warm up scan. I have downloaded the twain plugin for photoshop and access it that way. The lamp will go on when you preview scan something.