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All older printers are not working in macOS v11 (Big Sur)
What worked: I read the error logs on my printers. They pointed me to permission problems with /usr/libexec/cups. Perms should be 755.
To make this work:
System Integrity Protection should be ...
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HP Easy Scan - "HP Scanner 3" will damage your computer
This message happens when the certificate used to sign software gets revoked. The OS does check for revocations online so yes it blocks apps even if you don’t update the apps or the OS.
For HP ...
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How do I scan images with 48-bit color?
First of all, see if there is ICE (Image Capture Extension) software for your scanner. This is usually found in /Library/Image Capture/Devices/. This is what provides device-specific support in Image ...
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Brother Printer works as a printer but not as a scanner
I had the same issue. For me it was the Brother Printer HL-L2380DW on Monterey, but the behavior was the same. I could delete and re-add the printer with no problem. It would print, but it would not ...
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HP Easy Scan - "HP Scanner 3" will damage your computer
Edit: While the app now launches, it still won't let me scan. Found this https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/hp-driver-framework-broken-in-catalina-10-15-7.2262865/post-29100622 saying that the ...
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iPad app to convert multiple photos to a single pdf
Even simpler than Pages, you can use iBooks
Step 1: Select all photos you want to combine into one pdf within
your Camera Roll, they should be in the order you want them combined
in
Step 2: Press the ...
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Brother MFC Scanner not recognized any more
I experienced the same problem with macOS High Sierra 10.13.6 on a MacBook Pro 13" 2018 and a Brother MFC-j6510DW.
The solution is straightforward, you have to reset the printing system according to ...
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How do I scan images with 48-bit color?
I tracked down this disclaimer in the manual: 48-bit scanning is Windows-only.
However, thanks to the comments below: I've confirmed VueScan is able to produce 48-bit TIFF scans on macOS. (I had ...
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How to scan a a QR code that is on your screen?
Yes, you can do this without another device:
Take a screen shot of your screen and make sure the QR code is captured properly. Crop to the QR code in the screenshot and save the image file using ...
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Samsung Easy document Scanner won't communicate with scanner on OS X Catalina 10.15
That is because Easy Document Creator uses several apps underneath and not all are 64-bit, as required by Catalina.
One of them is Select Scanner.app (in /Applications/Samsung/Samsung Easy Document ...
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Any program that can automatically split photos in one scan?
The builtin "Image Capture" in macOS does this just fine. Just set "Auto detection" to "Detect Separate Items". See here for a more thorough explanation: https://appletoolbox.com/how-to-scan-photos-...
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Scan a QR code with your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch
It should float a yellow bracket round a recognised QR Code, with an abbreviated link underneath.
Tap that. It will go to the site in the link.
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Preview is attaching "quarantine" metadata to every file
All sandboxed apps, including Preview, attach a quarantine attribute to files they open with write permission, even if they make no other changes. They've been doing this for years, and you never ...
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Duplex Scanning in OSX with non-duplex scanner with document feeder
The "fake duplex" in PDF Scanner works very nicely.
The things I find frustrating are:
Autocrop pages doesn't crop all pages in the batch the same. Sometimes it crops too much, so I avoid using ...
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How to use an old HP Scanjet g4010 scanner with macOS Monterey 12.3.1?
As people already pointed out in the comments, VueScan is not only a good scanner tool in itself but supports a long list of old scanners. They offer a free trial so you can try it out first to see ...
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Force Preview to Live Text a PDF?
It does seem as though Live Text does not work for PDFs in Preview, but only for image formats, e.g. TIFF, JPEG, PNG.
Apple's support pages say "open an image or photo".
https://support....
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Force Preview to Live Text a PDF?
Scanning in the iOS Notes app provides OCR / LiveText when the scanned document is opened from within Notes (It seems like scanning with the iOS Files app doesn't). Also, scanning with Notes and then ...
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What Applications can use to scan?
The most notable third-party app for interfacing with scanners is VueScan:
https://www.hamrick.com
When Apple or scanner manufacturers stop supporting older devices, then it's your best, last hope.
It ...
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What scriptable OCR Software exists on OSX for a paperless office
OCRKit has both AppleScript support and a CLI. From their help page:
AppleScript
You can also script OCRKit to integrate it into your specific workflow.
For example process incoming files, ...
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How to scan/fix bad sectors on USB connected Ext HD even if SMART is unsupported w/o buying tools
This article on osxdaily has a lot of good information that relates to this problem. The process that relates to this question:
Use Mac Disk Utility
In the UI, click First Aid
You will be asked: &...
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How to scan/fix bad sectors on USB connected Ext HD even if SMART is unsupported w/o buying tools
In general you can't get SMART status of a drive in an external case. Some cases will support it, some do only with vendor-supplied software.
But SMART isn't all that useful. It's good at telling you ...
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Do iPhones use active scanning to find Wi-Fi networks when Ask to Join Networks is off?
Since iOS8 the MAC is randomised while scanning for wi-fi networks. I believe that has since been adopted by most devices.
The REAL MAC is only used after connection to a network.
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How do I reduce the file size of iOS scanned documents (using the Files app)
This is fixed in iOS 15 - the scan sizes are adequate now:
color ~1MB
gray scale ~350KB
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Why does Image Capture scan tiff files with different compression formats?
I am encountering this same problem. I realised this when I tried to import my scanned photos into Lightroom and got an error that "The file uses an unsupported compression algorithm".
From ...
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iOS MAC address randomization for personal hotspots
Since iOS 8, Apple has implemented MAC address randomization as a security measure against tracking. It will will generate a random MAC address when
responding to a probe request (another node is ...
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How can I scan from my Canon Pixma MP140 to Mojave?
This question is a bit scattered, but if I understand it correctly, you can’t get this scanner to work with your Mac.
This scanner is EoL - End of Life
Looking at the support page for this particular ...
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Showing previously scanned page when scanning several pages
Use Preview>File>Import from [name of scanner]. You get the exact same scanning window; it's also a Mac OS built-in program; and you can see the thumbnails of the few most recent scans along ...
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How to use an old HP Scanjet g4010 scanner with macOS Monterey 12.3.1?
I was able to pull the plugins for mine out of an older version. Apple also has a driver package for HP Printers/Scanners which I was able to get working on Ventura and Sonoma.
Not sure if it will ...
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Force Preview to Live Text a PDF?
Open in pdf in preview. Click File > Export. Select "embed text". Click save.
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Notes app: search inside scanned document
There is a way to find the position of a text in scanned images, but it doesn't involve the Notes app. Instead, go to the Home screen on your iPhone and pull down / swipe down to bring up the search ...
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