Worked Described
A Canoscan LiDE 30 scanner working on Windows 11 64-bit
Claude got an old Canoscan LiDE 30 scanner, whose last driver was for Windows XP, working on 64-bit Windows 11 in about an hour.
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Credits
- Reddit poster Wizzard_2025 Source ↗
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The full story
The poster has an old Canoscan LiDE 30 whose last driver was for Windows XP, and used to run an XP install in VirtualBox just to scan. Claude got it working on 64-bit Windows 11 in an hour or so. The post gives no technical detail of how.
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From a short post by the maker, so the details are as they tell them.
- Reddit: Got my scanner workingReddit poster: Wizzard_2025Posted
The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.
If it disappears: archived copy of Reddit: Got my scanner working (opens in a new tab)