LIDE 70 scanner with Windows 10 - how to force change from WIA to TWAIN drivers in Paperport11 ?

[Franz47]

For quite some time the LIDE 70 scanner worked well with Windows 10, Paperport 11 and using the TWAIN driver. Recently, I suppose caused by a Windows update, the scanner is attached with the WIA driver. It works, but the WIA Canoscan Lide 70 interface offers less choices than the TWAIN interface. Uninstalling and reinstalling everything, LIDE 70 driver with Win 8 compatitility as suggested in https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/canoscan-lide-70-and-windows-10/440c49e5-3ff2-... or adding the path to the drivers as suggested elsewhere ended up with the WIA driver working with Paperport 11 always. Is there any way to force the TWAIN driver to be used with the scanner and not WIA?

[Stephen]

Thanks for posting!

While our Forum Community members are welcome to chime in, the CanoScan LiDE 70 has been retired, and product support is no longer available. Once a product is retired, new drivers and software development stops, and official Canon support content (troubleshooting articles, user guides, how-to videos, drivers, etc.) can be removed from the Canon website.

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[JBVic]

I don't know who the villain is in this scenario, Microsoft or Canon. Perhaps both companies working in cahoots. However, I do know that the old Windows 7 drivers for my Canoscan scanner work just fine in Windows 10 when I use a special program (which will remain unnamed) to access the scanner. Microsoft suddenly decided to stop using Twain drivers and only allow WIA though, so I'm now unable to access my scanner from my favoriter image editing programs. My scanner has special capabilities that Canon for some bizarre reason no longer includes in any of the scanners it sells but then, why should I have to replace a perfectly functioning scanner? And in any event, I will never purchase another Canon product as long as I live. I will also do whatever I can to convince others to avoid Canon products as well. Planned obsolescence has its downsides and angering a customer like me is one of them. I can assure you, by far I'm not the only Canon scanner who is furious at not being able to use my scanner because of artificially imposed regressions in functionality imposed by Microsoft AND Canon.

[alexvinchev]

This is the exact reason I've stopped buying any Canon products. I've trashed an A3 printer due to Windows upgrade, I have to trash now the scanner. I've never considered for example to buy for example Canon DSLRs also due to this reason. How other manufacturer's 15+ year old devices can work with Windows 10, but Canon ones don't?