Question about copying direct from scan to a Word document

Firstly try attaching scanner to a computer running an earlier version of windows and confirm the scanner is working OK.
If you are satisfied the scanner works the problem may lie in the fact the Windows VISTA does not have the necessary driver and/or does not support this scanner. Your alternative is to go to hamrick.com and download a trial version of vuescan which should get the sanner working. If it does, then may be worthwhile investing in the program and happy scanning.

From this link you can select your operating system (Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7) and download the official drivers for your canon scanner. I assume that your scanner is lide 90, not lide 25 as there is different model at the headline and at your post.

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Unfortunatly there is no driver made by cannon to make this unit work with Windows Vista and they are not going to invent one either.

However did you use Vista to id the unit as a scanner and use Vista's Windows Gallery as a scanner software?

Try this substitue and get back to me about how it's working

You may download from here
http://support-my.canon-asia.com/P/search?category=Scanners&series=CanoScan+LiDE&model=CanoScan+LiDE+20&menu=download&filter=0

There are no official drivers for CanoScan Lide 30 for Windows XP, so your problem is obvious. I suggest you sending an e-mail at Canon including details about your scanner (date purchased, serial number in text form or scanned) asking them to develop driver set as this model is very trade and at shops since 2006 or 2007.

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Here is the link for downloading the drivers for canoscan lide 20 for windows 7 (compatible with XP, Vista e.t.c).
Canoscan lide 30 does not support windows 7, here are the drivers for Vista.

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Stelios

Don't use the OmniPage software for scanning. OmniPage is an OCR (optical character recognition) program and is trying to convert the scan into a document compatible with a text editor (such as Microsoft Word). Use a graphics editing program, and use the option to 'Import' or 'Acquire' an image. Make sure that the LiDE 25 is specified as the scanner, and you should be linked to the scanner interface. Now when the scan is complete, it will be transferred to the graphics editor as an image, not a document.

http://windows-vista-updates.blogspot.com/2007/05/canon-scanner-drivers-for-windows-vista.html

You need to use OCR. Use the OmniPage Se application that shipped with your scanner.

Have you installed OmniPage? What OS are you using? Which scanner did you have previously? Are you able to OCR a document through OmniPage?