Hi Mary and Eileen, The Hamrick Vuescan site claims that the Plustek OpticBook 3600 is supported on Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) and later, if you first install the Plustek drivers. It also says that you might have to use the x32 version of Vuescan with this scanner. This suggests to me that the drivers Eileen found for 10.7 and above might get this device working, but that it wouldn't apply to Snow Leopard systems (Mac OS X 10.6) like the one you were running. It also suggests to me that the drivers might have been written for machines that natively run a 32-bit kernel (essentially, all older Mac models), and that since all recent Macs, including Eileen's MacBook Air, boot into 64-bit systems by default, and since this is enforced by all systems running Mountain Lion and above, this might be why she isn't seeing the device.
I think that the option of booting into 32-bit mode went away in Mountain Lion and above. There's an Apple Knowledge base article on booting into either 64-bit or 32-bit mode, but it's now marked as archived. Here's the link: • Archived - OS X: Starting up with the 32-bit or 64-bit kernel http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3773 This has left me puzzled, because I don't see a way to install the drivers on the new MacBook Airs that ship with the newer operating systems. Maybe Hamrick means this might work on upgraded operating systems that managed to install the drivers under Lion or earlier? Might be worth asking the VueScan folks directly if this is at all possible on a recent MacBook Air. Eileen, I haven't tried Prizmo 2 on the Mac (although I did have version 1, which I didn't like), but I think that Anne and some others prefer ABBYY FineReader Express over Prizmo 2. ABBYY is currently on sale at the Mac App Store for half price ($49.99) for Thanksgiving. I know Prizmo 2 is much better than Prizmo 1, but you seem to be a serious scanner, so I thought I would mention the ABBYY option while it's still active this weekend. Cheers, Esther On Nov 30, 2013, at 12:34 PM, Mary Otten wrote: > Unfortunately, that 3600 scanner is worthless for us vo users. I tried it > when I had snow leopard. The only thing you got access to was there button > manager thing, and it was VO not friendly. So the short version is, forget > it. That is, unless they have come up with something new and better than the > older drivers. > Mary > > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Nov 30, 2013, at 1:40 PM, Eileens Misrahi wrote: > >> Hello Folks, >> >> I have a PlusTech 3600 and found this statement when I Googled it. "In >> Mountain Lion you will need to turn it on." What does this mean? I found the >> drivers for OS 10.7 as a beta., but my Mac Air in system preferences does >> not recognize it and it is not listed in the table to add the scanner to the >> computer. Can anyone give me advise on how to procede? >> >> Thanks in advance. >> >> Eileen >> >> >> Sent from my iPhone > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
