CanoScan LiDE 210
CanoScan LiDE 210 is the scanning software driver for Canon's LiDE 210 flatbed scanner, a compact consumer-grade USB scanner designed for document and photo digitisation. Canon discontinued this scanner and its official driver support years ago, so the bundled software is no longer updated by the manufacturer. Users with legacy LiDE 210 scanners on modern macOS versions have found that the original Canon software may no longer launch or function reliably.
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1 suggestionCanon has not provided a native Apple Silicon build of the LiDE 210 driver and is unlikely to do so, as the hardware itself was discontinued. The bundled Canon ScanGear software will not launch on macOS 28 (September 2028) when Apple removes Rosetta 2 support. Rather than waiting for a Canon update that is unlikely to come, VueScan is a well-established third-party scanning solution that has reverse-engineered support for the LiDE 210 and runs natively on Apple Silicon Macs. VueScan is a paid application (with a free trial) that works with legacy scanners across Windows, macOS and Linux, and its developers actively maintain it — it offers more advanced scanning features than the original Canon driver, including batch scanning, colour correction, and film/slide support. Many users with old scanners report VueScan has given hardware years of extra life.
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