topic Re: Canon Microfilm Scanner MS350 & Windows 7 in General Discussion

Canon Microfilm Scanner MS350 & Windows 7

moneybags — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 14:35:21 GMT

Hello,

First of all, I hope I have not put a post in the wrong forum area (this is my post on here) as I could not see a Microfilm Scanner area on the forum.

At our offices we have a Canon Microfilm Scanner MS350 with a SCSI connection and it works beautifully on Windows XP. We are moving to Windows 7 and have successfully managed to get SCSI drivers sorted BUT when we run the installation CD Windows 7 does not want to know (this is what we expected, but you have to hope).

The original CD states that it contains: -

ISIS & Twain Driver for Microfilm Scanner 300/350 v.1.1

Capture Perfect 1.0 Ver 1.053

Is anyone aware of any Windows 7 software for this device as our reseller tells us that it is not possible to get our device to work on Windows 7 and they want us to buy a replacement for about £5,000 which is more than we paid for the MS 350.

Thank you for any replies, even if they contain bad news.

Re: Canon Microfilm Scanner MS350 & Windows 7

agill — Tue, 07 Jan 2014 16:15:04 GMT

Were you able to get a resolution for this?

Re: Canon Microfilm Scanner MS350 & Windows 7

rauwitt — Sun, 23 Mar 2014 09:45:25 GMT

Hello,

the following windows 7-drivers are available for Canon MS 350 II:

CapturePerfect v1.063 Patch for MS300II_350II (v1.063)

ISIS & TWAIN Drivers V1.3 for MS300II_350II (Version 1.3)

Perhaps they are also suitable for Canon MS 350.

It also matters which SCSI board you use and if you use Win-7 32 or 64 bit.

Recommended SCSI boards for Canon MS 350 are:

1   Adaptec AHA-2930U
2   Adaptec AHA-2940AU
3   Adaptec ASC-19160
4   Adaptec ASC-29160

Only for SCSI boards no. 3 and 4 drivers for win7-64 bit are available.

Does anyone know if you need SCSI adapters for these boards and

which adapters are suitable?

Thank you for any replies.

Re: Canon Microfilm Scanner MS350 & Windows 7

rauwitt — Thu, 22 May 2014 12:04:30 GMT

Hello,

Canon MS 350 works under Windows 7.

The instruction:

- PC with Windows 7 32 bit

- SCSI controller Adaptec-AHA-2940 UW

- Windows 7 driver for Adaptec-AHA-2940 UW

- Install ISIS & TWAIN Drivers V1.3 for MS300II_350II (Version 1.3)

- Install CapturePerfect v1.063 Patch for MS300II_350II (v1.063)

- Copy "pafcv2.dll" from Windows XP "CapturePerfect 1.0" folder in new "CapturePerfect 1.0" folder

That's all.

Re: Canon Microfilm Scanner MS350 & Windows 7

btlbre — Sat, 17 May 2014 19:42:00 GMT

Thanks for the workaround rauwitt.

Has anyone confirmed whether this will work for the original MS300? I see that the XP driver releases (v1.1 and v1.2) support MS300, MS300II, MS350, and MS350II - but v1.3 only shows the "II" models. Though I suppose if it will work for the MS350, it shouldn't be a problem?

We'll give it a try and see what happens...

Update: I have installed every version of the driver pack (1.1/1.2/1.3) and none of them create a file named pafcv2.dll. Can anyone clarify this?

Update 2: Found the file, it's in the ScanPerfect installation. The older version on the site (1.060) contains the same version of this file as the 1.063 patch, however. Very unclear one what I'm supposed to be doing here, as the instructions in the post above do not seem to be correct.

Re: Canon Microfilm Scanner MS350 & Windows 7

rauwitt — Thu, 22 May 2014 12:26:56 GMT

Thanks for your reply.

I corrected the instruction concerning the origin of the "pafcv2.dll".

It is indeed from the Windows XP "CapturePerfect 1.0" folder.

By the way Canon MS 350 Microfilm Scanner is working for 2 month

without any problems.

Re: Canon Microfilm Scanner MS350 & Windows 7

btlbre — Sat, 24 May 2014 03:36:44 GMT

OK, I think I get it now. The Vista version of CapturePerfect (v1.063) is labelled as a patch and does not contain the needed .dll file, but the application otherwise appears to function without installing the XP version (v1.060). However, both versions install to the same folder by default, so when I installed them consecutively on my computer the .dll file was already there and remained unchanged after v1.063 was installed. That's why I was confused - the instructions seem to instruct you to copy over an identical file.

So to sum it up: If you install the Vista software over the XP software it should "just work"... Whereas if the XP version was never installed, the needed library file won't exist.

This is still just a guess, as I haven't been out to the site where the scanner is installed yet - I just wanted to figure out what I was doing before I make the trip. And now I might not have to! Thanks rauwitt.

Re: Canon Microfilm Scanner MS350 & Windows 7

rauwitt — Mon, 26 May 2014 12:20:00 GMT

You can leave out the installation of the XP version (v1.060), but save the file "pafcv2.dll" from it.

Just install the Win 7 version (v1.063) and add the saved dll-file.

Re: Canon Microfilm Scanner MS350 & Windows 7

btlbre — Mon, 02 Jun 2014 02:15:52 GMT

Hi again. I walked someone through the setup tonight and we succeeded in getting their MS300 scanner working. It didn't go exactly as expected though.

At first, the scanner was visible in Device Manager, but it had a (?) beside its entry. The Properties window stated that it was working properly, and on the Driver tab it showed "No device driver is installed or required for this device". At this point, ScanPerfect 1.063 listed the scanner twice in the devices dialog, but neither of the entries worked and attempting to scan simply gave an error stating the device could not be found.

At some point we re-checked Device Manager's Driver tab, and the message had changed to say that no driver was installed. We had to go through the manual selection (Let me choose... Have Disk...) method, and pointed to the MS300II/MS350II ISIS/TWAIN v1.3 INF folder. Windows recognized the MS300II driver as being compatible, and once it was installed everything worked as expected.

So in conclusion, I'm not sure why the 'II' drivers are not labelled as being compatible by Canon. Being that the new drivers are being used I'm not even sure that pafcv2.dll is necessary, but I didn't bother testing that out as it's not hurting anything by being there.

Thanks again for the information, and good luck to anyone else trying to keep their hardware going.

Re: Canon Microfilm Scanner MS350 & Windows 7

rollingwave — Mon, 01 Dec 2014 02:21:54 GMT

Hi:

Finding this post and the following thread has given us some hope!!

Instead of the MS350, we have a used MS400. In every other way, we have the identical problem and wonder if these workarounds will help us configure the MS400 to work with Win 7.

I am the volunteer tech with a non-profit group known as the Quebec Family History Society (QFHS). We are a genealogical society based in Pointe Claire, Quebec. We have 7 desktops in our library; one of which is currently dedicated to the MS400. We depend on it to view and scan microfilm and fiche. Currently though we are having trouble configuring it to work with Win XP and are not sure whether it might work with Win 7. It has worked with XP in the past, but we just reformatted the hard disk and are in some difficulty.

Like this original post, we can't even consider purchasing a new scanner as it is way beyond our means. I have just subscribed to the Forum and will be making every effort to use your suggestions as well as contact Canon directly to see if they have anything helpful.

I plan to follow up with a little better technical detail letting you know the specific SCSI card/board we currently have installed. I believe that it is the first on the list provided here; the Adaptec AHA-2930 U. It is over 5 years old.

Do you think that we have any chance of migrating to Win 7 with our MS400?

I noticed that contributor "rauwitt" introduced a list of the 4 compatible SCSI boards as well as a list of the steps to configure the MS350 under Windows 7. There appears to be some confusion as to the board as described in the two posts. Is it the AHA-2940 AU or the AHA-2940 UW?

Thanks so much for sharing this thread. I look forward to any advice you can send our way.

Re: Canon Microfilm Scanner MS350 & Windows 7

btlbre — Mon, 01 Dec 2014 21:47:19 GMT

Allo rollingwave! I don't believe the model of SCSI card matters, as long as it has drivers for Vista or newer. My client was using an obscure USB to SCSI adapter, and since the scanner was the only SCSI device they had, it was difficult to confirm whether the adapter itself was working.

The main thing seems to be the library file that the Vista+ version of ScanPerfect is lacking. As long as you copy that file to the correct folder and the scanner's drivers are correctly installed, you should be OK. Of course, there is a possibility that the MS400 uses a different method to communicate that cannot be enabled as easily - but chances are good that is not the case.

Re: Canon Microfilm Scanner MS350 & Windows 7

rauwitt — Tue, 02 Dec 2014 11:46:34 GMT

Hello rollingwave,

The list of SCSi boards in my first post derives from the manual of the Canon MS 350.

Indeed the SCSI board I used under WinXP and use under Win7 is the Adaptec-AHA 2940UW -

without any problems so far.

I couldn't find any similar list in the instructions for the Canon MS 400.

But as contributor btlbre said the choice of the SCSI board isn't so important.

In your place I would use the SCSI Board from your WinXP installation:

Adaptec AHA 2930U. You find the suitable Win7 driver here.

The OS must be Win 7 32 bit.

Good luck!

Re: Canon Microfilm Scanner MS350 & Windows 7

rollingwave — Tue, 02 Dec 2014 16:52:46 GMT

Thank you both very much!

We are grateful for your responses and feel more confident about what we have to do. I have found the drivers for our card: AHA-2930CU and downloaded them. I will keep you posted as to our progress. We are also looking for a good image acquisition software as we do not have a licence to CapturePerfect. We have been using Irfanview for years and wonder if you have any suggestions.

Glad we joined this thread.

RollingWave

Re: Canon Microfilm Scanner MS350 & Windows 7

rauwitt — Thu, 04 Dec 2014 11:47:58 GMT

Hello rollingwave,

another image acquisition software is XnView which is free for private use and non-commercial

companies.

Re: Canon Microfilm Scanner MS350 & Windows 7

maryslibrary — Sat, 21 Mar 2015 15:29:45 GMT

This forum has been useful to me and I wanted to share my results. I was able to get MS400 working on Windows 7 32-bit at a small public library in Western PA. I'm pretty sure MS400 won't work on 64 bit Windows 7 as I haven't been able to find any drivers for MS400 that the 64-bit OS will recognize. If anyone has any information otherwise, I'd be glad to hear about.

My setup uses Adaptec 2940U PCI SCSI card (thanks to the win 7 driver mentioned above by contributor rauwitt)

We are using eCopy Desktop v7.1 for image aquisition that our library purchased awhile back and is what we've always used. It still works fine on Windows 7 32-bit. The software seems like it would also work fine on Windows 64 bit, but it doesn't matter without corresponding functional 64 bit drivers for MS400.

The specific drivers for the MS400 I am using actually came as part of the eCopy software package. I am assuming these are the same as what is available online from Canon, but can't confirm. I haven't tried using any other image aquisition software.

Re: Canon Microfilm Scanner MS350 & Windows 7

Thorold — Thu, 18 Jun 2015 14:53:29 GMT

Canon Microfilm Scanner 300II will not communicate with my computer which uses Windows 7 as an operating system. It is the same physical computer and we did have our seller come in and install for us after we moved from XP and remote session didn't quite work. We had a computer crash and had to reinstall the software. Now it won't recognize the SCSI connection. i uninstalled the old software(capture perfect 1.0) and reinstalled the new (capture perfect 3.0) Do i actually need a physical scsi controller installed into the computer tower?

Re: Canon Microfilm Scanner MS350 & Windows 7

btlbre — Fri, 19 Jun 2015 06:31:38 GMT

A physical SCSI card is not required if you are using a SCSI to USB converter.

You said that you uninstalled the old version of ScanPerfect. Did you save the needed .dll file before doing so?

Re: Canon Microfilm Scanner MS350 & Windows 7

rauwitt — Sun, 21 Jun 2015 13:57:38 GMT

There shouldn' be any problems to get CANON MS 300II running under Windows 7,

because this OS is totally supported by CANON. You can find the suitable drivers

and manuals here.