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I have a Canon Lide 80 scanner. According to Canon it is "he world's most advanced film-capable flatbed scanner". Yet not so advanced that when I bought my new 64 bit laptop last year they had drivers available. One of the reasons I shifted to Linux was the hope that there might be some way to get this working again outside the Windows environment. I have done a bit of searching and found a thread in German which leads to a page with a lot of downloads I don't understand:
http://www.linux-community.de/Community/Fragen/Installation-Scanner-Canon-Lide-80

Has anyone here solved this problem?

Shifting to Linux in hope that some piece of hardware will work that windows won't handle is a setup for disappointment. The quick Google search I did seems to suggest that it only works with Windows and OS X. My suggestion is to dual boot with XP or 7 and to use your scanner there. As for not being able to read the German site, just copy and past sections of text to Google's translate.

Unfortunately Windows is sometimes necessary and this is probably one of those cases. I have a CanoScan scanner that works in a virtualbox running windows 7. Doesn't work in linux however. By running in VB I can use the scanned image in linux. I have several programs that I need that I run under Windows in VB, wish I could completely do away with Windows but in today's world that's almost impossible. I'll give up Windows before I give up my Mint LMDE!

That's annoying. Is Canon the only ones who can make these drivers?

I am wondering whether they are trying to control this or if people just haven't bothered generally?