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I have the CanoScan LIDE 70, with a MacBook Pro.

I downloaded the drivers from Canon, installed fine, software works, but this thing has a few buttons on it. None of them do anything, what I bought it for was its cheap price, and the ability to "scan to pdf"

if I load the scangear software, it works fine, read the instructions/readme and did the "checkbox on use twain software" that doesnt work either,

and now, when I load acrobat pro, to scan to pdf, or create new pdf from scanner, it loads the scangear software right after I select a filename and freezes.

i dont know what else to do except return the damn thing! All I want is a cheap scanner that will scan to pdf when i press the button with good OCR abilities to recreate my documents.

help please!!!
according to this manual, and canon, this should all work fine. Actually, when I click the PDF button on the scanner, i have the ability in one of the utils to change what program launches when i press, I tested it and changed it to Acrobat, but it doesnt do anything except launch the program.. then i run into the same issue as before.. freezes after i've selected the filename.

this stupid scangear software is messing things up.

I CAN do it in two steps, and scan it to a jpg/tiff then print it in preview using pdf printer, but, then that defeats the purpose of specifically using THIS printer.

thanks