I can't say I've used this but I imagine with a document feeder it can save a lot of time. For Word and programs that don't support scanner interfaces simply use VueScan standalone and save to a file. Strangely enough it probably is at it's most impressive with the cheap sub $90 scanners as it corrects a lot of the deficiencies-however then the cost of the software becomes an issue. It has a few intermittent bugs but is well worth the money if you have already paid for an expensive scanner. Having said that VueScan is head and shoulders better than any manufacturers software I have seen. ![]() When Vuescan is correctly recognising the scanner an entry is present under File/Import and you can scan directly into Photoshop, but this is not always the best way as scanners consume vast chunks of memory if resolutions are set high then the import process can ![]() Alternatively disabling the scanner driver in Device Manager will also prevent VueScan finding the scanner. If you do not load the manufacturers software onto the machine Vuescan will not detect the presence of the scanner. Vuescan doesn't replace the manufacturers driver as far as I can make out, but instead it augments it's functions. It's a decent workflow, and I am entirely satisfied with it. I quite like that when it completes a scan, it highlights the file in File Explorer, and I can rename it and open in Photoshop, if that's my intention. I can think of no reason why I would want to use Vuscan over the Canon scanning software that came with my MB5360. So it seems moot that you need to open your scanner driver to import images, as you'd have had to close your 64 bit Photoshop, and open the 32 bit version anyway, which was probably an even more convoluted process. If you pushed up the memory available to Photoshop, third party plugins and printers would start failing, as they used the system memory not allocated to Photoshop. A lot of plugins, and scanner drivers were only available as 32bit, so if you did have Twain support, you needed to access it via the 32 bit version of Photoshop.īy the time CS5 came out, Photoshop was getting hungry for RAM, and 4Gb wouldn't cut it any more. Photoshop started installing 32 and 64 bit versions, which was nice because we could finally access the full 4Gb of RAM, which was as much as most of us had in the days of CS4. One of the problems with the flaky drivers was that everything was moving to 64 bit. I've spent hours and hours on the phone and in chats with Canon and Microsoft. The ones in the Support section literally bounce back and forth between two pages. It would be even nicer if there were links to chat technical support (I wouldn't dare try a phone call). It would be nice if Adobe could do something about this. The Canon guys told me that Adobe does this to protect itself from piracy. Both Canon and Microsoft have told me that Adobe has intentionally set it's default preferences this way, and only Adobe can change them. The WIA dialogue box is beyond horrific and it is crazy difficult to even find settings except for 300ppi in BITMAP format. ![]() Upon googling I have learned that this is not an uncommon problem. Photoshop will not recognize my Canon scanner. I have Windows 10, and when I try to import an image the only option is to use Windows' WIA (Windows Imaging Application).
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