Windows 10: Drivers for a parallel flatbed scanner.

Good evening.

My friend has an old Cannon flatbed scanner (canoscan fb620p). He bought a parallel to USB port, but it still won't work, he cannot find drivers for it for Windows 10 on the Canon site. Are there some sort of generic or legacy drivers that can be loaded to make the scanner work?

Thanks for your help.

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Any Flatbed Scanner Compatible with Windows 10

Hello. I have a small business and I need a flatbed scanner compatible with Windows 10. I actually have an HP Scanjet 8250 that used to work just fine with Windows 8, but it won't work with Windows 10. The HP website says it does not have a driver for
my 8250 that is compatible with Windows 10. Thankfully they referred me to a 3rd party vendor that "may" have a Win10 driver compatible with my 8250, but after I downloaded their product, I would've had to pay for a driver that "might" work.

So I figured, maybe I should just buy a new flatbed scanner that is compatible with Windows 10. Not surprisingly, I could find nothing on the Internetz that provides a list of flatbed scanners that are natively compatible with Win10. The best I could do
was find a few scanners that may have "work-arounds" or "3rd party drivers" that "should" work with Win10. For the price of these flatbeds, I'd rather not gamble on a possiblility that a simple device might work with my OS.

So now I turn to you. Please help. Is there any flatbed scanner that is compatible with Windows 10? Oh, and for the sake of being thorough, I need a scan window that is at least 9" by 14". Thanks for your time.

 

Windows Scan with Canon MG2900 series will not offer me the PDF Multiple Page option in Type

Hi,

Thank you for posting in Community, I understand your concern and we will try to assist you in the best way we can.

I would like you to know that if you're using a scanner with a document feeder and Windows Fax and Scan, you can scan multiple pages to a single file by scanning to the TIFF (.tif) file format.

But if you use Windows Fax and Scan and a flatbed scanner, you can likely scan multiple images to separate files. Not all flatbed scanners have this ability, so you might need to contact the scanner manufacturer to obtain a driver so that your flatbed scanner
can provide this option.

Hope this information helps.

 

Checkout Vuescan at https://www.hamrick.com/

 

I tried a similar approach several years ago with an HP parallel printer but it turned out the USB-to-parallel adapter was the problem, the printer software didn't recognize the new port created by the adapter.