Vista Ultimate and Visioneer Scanner

[bubba]

I am trying to use my Visioneer Scanner with Vista Ultimate with very bad
results. Does anyone have any positive results with Vista Ultimate and any
Visioneer Scanner?? TIA

 

[JoRene]

I had gotten a Visioneer 8700 USB scanner working with Vista RC2, Ultimate
version. I've installed it twice under different circumstances. The first
time I did a clean install to an older computer. I no longer have it
installed, but my recollection is that it scanned in the Windows scanner
application. The 2nd install was on a new computer, and I did an upgrade
install with the previous Visioneer and Paperport scanner applications
installed. I also no longer have that installed (waiting for the final
version to arrive), but the scanner was working using the paperport
application. I was surprised, but glad.

 

[vanilla]

I have purchased three or four Visioneer scanners over the last seven years
(they flow to family members as I upgrade.) My current scanner, the
Visioneer USB 9420, would not work with Vista (but I knew this going in
because of the Vista Upgrade Advisor.) I have been checking for
Vista-compatible drivers, hoping they would be released shortly after the
late January consumer rollout of Vista. Then I read that Vista-compatible
drivers will not be available until maybe May. Couldn't wait that long.

So I bought an HP Photosmart C4180 and downloaded the full Vista-compatible
software for it and am able to scan again. I do miss PaperPort, though (that
was why I stayed with Visioneer each time.) I have PP11 on my list of things
to buy when I earn some extra money ... but for now, with no drivers coming
for several months, and no guarantee that mine would be among the models
supported, I had to do something else.

Best of luck ... Visioneer scanners with PaperPort is a hard-to-beat combo.

vanilla

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bubba said ...

I am trying to use my Visioneer Scanner with Vista Ultimate with very bad
results. Does anyone have any positive results with Vista Ultimate and any
Visioneer Scanner?? TIA

 

[Hugh Wyn Griffith]

I do miss PaperPort, though (that was why I stayed with Visioneer >

each time.)

Isn't it in Omnipage these days? Scansoft phoned me the other day to
try and get me to buy Omnipage 15 ......

I tried to explain that OP11 did all I actually needed.