Canon Microfilm Scanner MS350 & Windows 7

[moneybags]

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.

[btlbre]

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.

[rauwitt]

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!

[rollingwave]

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

[rauwitt]

Hello rollingwave,

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

companies.

[maryslibrary]

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.

[Thorold]

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?

[btlbre]

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?

[rauwitt]

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.