
– and exit the System Preferences to make this setting stick – then at “Allow applications downloaded from:” select “Anywhere” – click the padlock in the lower left corner and provide an Administrator name & password to unlock the padlock – then make sure the “General”-tab is selected – if you get an error-message telling you you can’t install this software (these drivers) since the are not from Apple-appoved developers, you need to : Pkg-files when you click on them, you need unTAR-software like this : – if these files do not turn into regular. If you get a distorted scan when scanning in landscape view (or any other rotated view), just scan normally in portrait view and rotate the scanned image afterwards (in Preview app or another image editing program, like Photoshop or Graphic Converter) If the “Scan”-button remains grayed-out, make sure that you have selected an area to scan… (put differently : if “Selection:” is set to “Off”, you will need to select an area to scan before the “Scan”-button will be ready to use…) If your scanner lets you scan the first time, but after shut-down and restart scanning seems impossible because OSX can’t find the scanner, just plug-out the scanner’s USB-cable and plug it back in and everything should work again… When using the SANE drivers, you will probably not be able to use the ‘one click’-buttons that are on the scanner itself… TWAIN-supporting drivers (like SANE and the ones that come with OSX) will enable you to directly scan from within various applications like Photoshop, MS Word, GraphicConverter, OmniPage and OSX’s built-in Image Capture.
