I don’t know who made these but they work, whoever you are I salute you. Since Canon are tools & wont make the drivers for the Canon LiDE 50 scanner for 64bit Windows, someone hacked them together from drivers of another (LiDE 60) Canon scanner.
Device support for this scanner is not included within Microsoft XP/Vista/Windows 7 x64 or provided as an installable driver by Canon. To resolve this lack of support please install the modified driver below.
This package is based on original Canon ScanGear driver for the LiDE 60 and includes the full ScanGear GUI TWAIN interface required to operate the scanner.
Modifications for the LiDE 50 include:
Insertion of Hardware ID
Insertion of Device ID
Replacement of LiDE 60 Colour Profile with correct LiDE 50 ICC file
Insertion of correct flatbed scan area dimensions and imaging capabilities
Direct Download [MediaFire]
eMule ED2k
(You will need 7-Zip to extract this file)
Tags: 64 bit, 64bit, Canon, Drivers, Hardware, LiDE, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, x64
Thank you very much!! Just unzipped the dricver infto my downlaods folder. Then plugged in the scanner and Win7 automatically found it and installed it. Cool! Yeah!!
thanks for this, I have a lide 40 not sold outside japan, now I can scan without having to use xp and I can read the menus. brilliant. shame on cannon for not being more environmentally responsible.
Thanks a lot ! Good work, just unzip the file and plug the sanner and it works ! I was about to buy a new scanner out of despair, but I can use my CanoScan Lide 50 with my win7 64bits ! Yeah !
TOP CLASS after 2 hours of despair I googled for it and found this page (Driver)
ALL GOOD up and Running again … on X64 Vista
tried all Canon 60 -70 -90 driver no sucess…
THIS ONES WORKS with Toolbox 4.1
PERFECT
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Hi @ all,
Ill be updating the links on my website soon and will re-add (try to) add all modded drivers.
This package indeed comes from DNA(donotargue.com) it was made by a friend of mine(used to be admin on the site) as he had problems getting them to work on vista.
Thanks for the kind words, i’m glad some people have good use for the drivers.
Kind regards,
KillerSneak
http://donotargue.com – no arguments needed
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I tried the link but I get a message on Mediafire saying the file is no longer there. Where might I find it — please
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I have corrected the link for the drivers, & added an ED2k link for eMule for good measure.
Excellent. Thanks for this. There’s some damn clever people about !!
It’s possible find this driver in Spanish? I have download this driver and I have installed but the language is in English.
Thanks so much for rescuing my beloved scanner from obscurity! This was a really easy fix for this technophobe…
Hey folks!
I love all the feedback regarding this driver! However, is there a specific order in which to install this driver set?
I ran both Setup and Launcher, plugged in the scanner and Windows 7 x64 saw it just great! Scanner even made it’s normal little chirpyderp! BUT, scanner is not recognized by anything. And when I go to use the scanner using default windows context, it gives me a WIA error. And all other apps are telling me that no scanner was found.
Anyone have this issue?
Couldn’t get the driver to install on Windows 7 64-bit Uttimate. After launching Setup the OS simply return w/o any indication of the installed application/driver. I tried it after a clean reboot and run as Administrator. Not sure what I’m doing wrong here. Did anyone have this issue? Resolution? Thanks!
@ADG
I truefully appreciate all the smart people taking their time to research and found the solution to this driver problem. I blame Canon for out of greed by not supporting their own customers but leave them out in the cold. I experienced the same problem as yours after installing the DNA driver, the Cannon Toolbox could not find my scanner, but from another post I read I got my Lide50 to work. To start you have to uninstall the DNA driver, download the Lide60 64 bit driver (lide60vst6411111a_64en) from the official Canon website, do not run the set up but unzip it with 7z, you now have a cabinet file, unzip with 7z again then you can install the driver from there. Restart the comp and the scanner will be recognized by Toolbox as Lide60. The only thing is the buttons on the scanner will not work, you’ll have to scan and print from Toolbox. I hope this help.
Trie it in W7 64 and it installed the driver \i guess but when \i plugged in the scanner, it would not find driver.
Anyone know of a manual way to install the driver/
TXS
Have canon lide 20
Windows 7 64
Have tried both the lide 50 modified and trying to install only driver from canon lide 60.
the first shows canon lide 20 in devices and printers but there is no recognition by the scanner with no familiar whirr. Will not work with canoscan or with twain acquire, does not recognize scanner.
any ideas?
thanks Dr Max
I’m running into the same Windows Ultimate issue (x64) – everything goes according to plan until ready to scan – then I get an error Unable to select Twain sourc\ even though I just selected it from a pop-up. Also Toolbox 4.9 doesn’t have anything in it’s Settings select scanner dropdown box. Any ideas?
Thank you very much. My LiDe50 scaner in now working. Many thanks.
Hallo,
its very good work, my LIDE50 is running with WIN7 x64.
gut gemacht und endlich läuft mein LIDE50 unter WIN7 x64.
Helmut
@Mr. Paul, how you make it working? The computer detected the scanner but its not in canon toolbox. Please help. Thanks
cant get it to work
have tried both original driver from canon for the 60 model
and the modified 50 driver from DNA
unpacked the lots in two directories with 7Z (why oh why yet another packer… was just zip not good enough?)
both tried auto-install (by plugging in the scanner and have windows search itself) then de-install, run setupsg and then plugin, have hardware wizard look for the driver, but it’s not hooking up – in the hardware menu the scanner is mentioned but as faulty driver.
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Zip wasn’t good enough as the file was larger in zip form, I wanted it small as possible so that you all have a quick downloads.
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oh p.s. i’m running windows 7 64bit professional
ok… me stupid… should put on my reading glasses next time…
i have the canoscan lide 30 – not the 50….. needs another approach… oops!
Thank you so much for this!
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Thanks so much, it works.
Very grateful for the driver! Thank you!
Thanks a lot for keeping this online ^^
Thanks, I was desperete . . .
i can’t get the installer to run. using windows 7 x64 (just like old windows, except it makes you even stupider!) and i hit setupsg.exe and run as an administrator. nothing happens, and when i use the “troubleshoot compatibility” thing, it says the program is an “incompatible application”. if i have task manager open i see setupsg.exe open for about half a second before disappearing. by the way, what’s with all this 9/11 fake computer security fnord crap? every time i run an exe i have to reassure my pc that i really wanted to do that. i loathe windows. why haven’t i made the switch yet? i love penguins. /rant
oh for what it’s worth i can’t seem to even run canon’s xp/vista installers, now that i’ve tried them. i think the problem here might be a bill gates problem. any help?
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Personaly I dont’ use the Canon installer, just use the prompts that Windows gives you when you plug in the scanner, much easier.
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Great that someone makes the effort to solve the Canon Lide 50 problem.
Shame on the multinational corporations of Microsoft and Canon who should be spending some of their immense profits on their customers.
I had to manually add the driver, but, hey, what a pleasant sound when the scanner woke up as the driver was accepted. Thanks again
I have done what you explain and when I plug the scanner it sounds as it works but when I try to use Digitalization utility or Scann using Paint, both don´t find the scanner. What should I do?. I have no money to buy another scanner.
Thanks in advance and best regards.
Which model & OS are you using ?
Canon LIDE 50?
Windows 7 64-bit?
Thanks a lot. It really works, 100% salute to the person who made it. May god save you.
Hi there. Thanks for the driver. I have installed it and get the message “device working properly”. I have done “Test Scanner or camera” from Start/Devices and Printers and get the message “Your imaging device successfully completed the diagnostic test” and the status in the property dialogue box is “device ready”. However, if I right click on the scanner in Start/Devices and click on “start scan” I get the message “You need a WIA driver to use this device. Please install it from the installation CD or the manufacturer’s web site and try again”
I have toolbox 4.9.3.2 which may have been installed when I was trying to get the LiDE 50 to run as an LiDE 60. I’m having a similar problem as Barry (December 15, 2010) in that I can’t select source in the toolbox setting. If I try to scan from the toolbox, I get a dialogue box headed “Select Source” message with the following (and only) source highlighted: CanaScan LiDE 50 11.1 (32-32). If I hit the select button, I get the message “Unable to select TWAIN source”.
If I try manually running Launch.exe I and go through troubleshooting, I get the message under issues found “incompatible application”
I feel as if I’m 90% there but I really need help to actually get the scanner operating
I downloaded and installed the driver. Now the LiDE 50 scanner does not show in Photoshop or Acrobat Profesional. I get Integrated TWAIN camera instead. Any ideas on whet I should do?
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Thanks very much. Had to download the Canoscan Toolbox software (available on Canon’s website:http://www.canon.co.uk/Support/Consumer_Products/products/scanners/LiDE_series/CanoScan_LiDE_50.aspx?type=download&page=1) for the scanner to work after installing the driver, and once I had done this it worked fine on my Lide50. The “scan” button on the scanner doesn’t work but it’s very simple to launch the Toolbox software on your PC and start the scanner from there.