Scanning Using Epson Scan (for Mac Os X)

Can I use Epson Scan with my Mac? I'm unable to scan from my product's control panel with OS X 10.6 or later. What should I do? What is the maximum number of pages that I can scan into one PDF file? How do I decide which resolution to select when scanning from Epson Scan? The quality of a scanned image with Epson Scan is poor. What should I do?

I have an canon 1240u that should be supported by image capture but isn't. I wonder if one could hack it too.
I looked in /Library/Image Capture/Devices but found nothing but camera devices. Is this normal?

I have a 1240U and it works perfectly!

Did you have to do anything special to get your Canon 1240U working with Image Capture?

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It's a N1240U. It works with photoshop and the scan gear plug-in. It does work with the terrible Canon Scan Tool box. Image Capture does not detect the scanner.
I found no scanner devices in Library/image capture, Sytem/Library/image capture or User/Library

This is a nice hint. I had the same scanner until recently and never thought of trying something like this. I don't remember for sure but I could swear that I have gotten PhotoShop to recognize it as a Twain device.
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I have a Sharp AL-1655CS machine (copier, printer, scanner) for which the Mac is not supported.
My Image Capture.app -> Devices directory contains a single file «EPSON Scanner.app»
Using OS X 10.4.7 on a PowerBook G4.
Is there any hope that I can access the machine?
Thanks
Al

Thanks for the TWAIN SANE suggestion. I'm pretty sure none of the lower-end Canon scanners include TWAIN support so it still doesn't make sense to me how HairyPotter can use Image Capture with his N1240U unless it's with TWAIN SANE. Image Capture is most certainly blind to my LiDE 50.

I figured what the heck. I did recently manage to track down the Tiger driver for my HP 5400c and got it working, but the idea of maybe using Image Capture was very attractive. VueScan and TwainSane do not list my scanner as supported.
So, even though this hint was a modification of the EPSON Scanner file, I figured I would try it and see what happened. I followed the directions exactly, and left the device name as 'HP Scanjet 5400C Series' even though it was in a list of Epsons in the modified file.
After the save and restart, Image Capture does not see the scanner. Ah well.
But then I found that all the buttons on the front of the scanner, the 'one-touch' feature that lets you scan directly into Photoshop, or email or directly to the printer, that have never been supported on the Mac, even when it was brand new and running under OS 9, suddenly came to life, and the Scanjet Button Manager Application suddenly works properly, and lets me configure all the buttons. Now the one-touch button auto launches the HP scanning software, and the various buttons work as the were configured -- features that supposedly were never supposed to work on the Mac at all, and which I long ago gave up on.
Still have to use the annoying HP scanner interface, but hey, new features!
If anybody has an idea to make it work with Image Capture, that'd be great, but thanks for the hint so far!
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Excellent work.
Our 2500 started working immediately when we rebooted. We did not realize it was working, because we didn't yet know that to scan, you had to select an area in the Overview with a marquee, and then the Scan button highlights.
Also, if you inadvertently 'Disconnect' the scanner (to try again), you will not be able to see it again until you reboot. But then it's back in the list.

wow!!! this worked immediately just as described.
thank you, thank you, thank you!!!

I've been trying to get my old 2500 to work with OSX for 2 years.. I sing praise to mobius: 'Hail Mobius he maketh the old scanner work' At last my daughter will stop hassling me to buy a new one... Now she will be in my office all day. Oh no Mobius what have you done?!!

Seriously I am very grateful.

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Well documented hint. Does it work with an Intel Mac? I can't seem to get it to work.

Additionally,
Is there any way to make this work with an Intel Mac with the printer connected via airport?

I have an Epson CX3700 multifunction printer and I'm using Tiger 10.4.11 on a G5 Dual PPC. I'm handling the printing part with gimp, but the scanner is ignored. I tried this scheme but it doesn't work.

It did work after all. The problem is the plist editor used. It did not work using TextEdit (checked and double checked the data input) or OmniOutliner. Problem is the Info.plist file was only recognised if edited and saved with Plist Pro. Cheers. Good tip. Thanks

I'm trying to get my old Epson GT-7000 to work since it died in Leopard. On Tiger it worked without a flaw.
When I'm looking at the different .PLIST files they look different. The IOUSBDevice array is not in Info.plist but in Deviceinfo.plist in which I can't find the <key>***Generic***</key> text.
So now I have a scanner which can be seen in ImageCapture (jeej) but gives an error when I want to use it.
Any tips?
The strange thing is that on the Dutch Epson site they say that every Epson should work in Leopard.

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I had to use your 'slightly modified' hint to get the scanner part of my old faitfull Epson Stylus CX3810 to work under LION os, on an intel MacBook Pro. After getting the USB device info, 'Stylus CX3800 0x0818' , I wrote the following sequence:
<dict>
<key>Product Identification</key>
<string>Stylus CX3800</string>
<key>device events</key>
<array>
<string>scan</string>
</array>
<key>device type</key>
<string>scanner</string>
<key>idProduct</key>
<string>0x0818</string>
<key>idVendor</key>
<string>0x04B8</string>
</dict>
in file : /Library/Image Capture/Devices/EPSON Scanner.app/Contents/Resources/DeviceMatchingInfo.plist
Then I went in file: /Library/Image Capture/Devices/EPSON Scanner.app/Contents/Resources/ModelInfo.plist, found the '<key>0x0820</key>' entry which corresponds to a CX4200 scanner, and replaced 820 with 818. And that's it, Image Capture now thinks my CX3810 is a CX4200. I tried with a CX3200 which is older but still works fine too.
Your hint was very usefull. But I'm very disapointed, to put it mildly, that some Apple beans counter decided to remove the CX3810 from the plist datastructures;.. What a saving !!! More frustrating was that using Windows 7 under bootcamp the 'printer/scanner all in one' was detected and installed automagicly. Infuriating to think Windows is more supportive than Lion ... didn't it use to be the opposite !!!

After reading my post, I realise the simplest thing to do is to replace the 'Product Identification string' of a supported scanner close to your own, in file DeviceMatchingInfo.plist . In my case I only have to find the CX4200 Product Identification entry, in the file, and replace <string>CX4200</string> with <string>stylus CX3800</string> , and do nothing else.. As a matter of fact, I did find the entry for a still supported 'CX3900', and replaced it with 'stylus CX3800'. This amusingly gives me the right device Icon in Image capture, but the scanner name is now displayed as PX-A620.. but what the h.. you could always play with the 'Region Name' in ModelInfo.plist but I didn't, I can live with it this way. Have fun !