I didn’t find the home page either.
Creator: NG PDF Lab
Here:
https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9ncvz78jjql8?hl=en-US&gl=US
you can download the EXE without visiting the Microsoft Store.
Have you tried entering the phrase “canon canoscan n1240u driver windows 11” into the search engine? 
Describe what happens when you connect your Canon scanner to a PC.
What does Device Manager show?
What about VueScan?
https://www.hamrick.com/vuescan/canon_n1240u.html#technical-information
" VueScan is compatible with the Canon N1240U on Windows, macOS and Linux.
If you’re using Windows and you’ve installed a Canon driver, VueScan’s built-in drivers won’t conflict with this. If you haven’t installed a Windows driver for this scanner, VueScan will automatically install a driver.
You can use this scanner on Mac OS X and Linux without installing any other software."
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Yes I already did the research when my Windows XP PC died.
The solution is either 50€ VueScan (or 25€ with only jpeg) on Windows or 0€ SANE on Linux.
PS. FWIW, my Canon CanoScan N1240U, is identical to the Canon CanoScan LiDE 30.
Just an alternate name, in other countries, maybe.
Install Scanner X for free.
Windows Registry won’t break down too much.
I’m lazy doing so, I think it won’t work. I don’t often need to scan any more.
I called Epson today and of course it turns right on when I’m on the call with them (without doing any troubleshooting steps yet). I haven’t had any computer updates this weekend and I tried it on another computer as well, so it appears it’s just being flaky.
At least I didn’t have to wait more than about 10 minutes to connect to a representative.
Feel free to keep dropping scanner recs here, though. It’s interesting to learn about what people are using and maybe there will be something I haven’t come across yet (because I don’t expect this newfound life in my V600 Photo to last).
Edit: I also have a price watch set for the V600 Photo on Amazon in case the price drops again.
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Super FREE tool for scanning. It not just a PDF scanner - will save to JPG, PNG, TIFF, BMP. Makes a scan session easier when all scans can be done at same time without having to deal with the lame software of some printer company asking the same dumb questions.
If some kinda driver is on the computer, then this thing can operate your scanner.
I like the fact I can just hammer through all the scans of a CD and booklet, then save them in one go. No need to faff around and save each scan one by one. Big time saver.
Also version for Penguin and Apple users. Not just Windows.
Personally I own two scanners. Neither great. Have had to learn to tweak colour levels in https://www.getpaint.net to get round limitations.
Main work done on a Brother all in one scanner. But it fails on all black covers where stripes can appear. Have an expensive office all-in-one here that is paler than a really pale thing and looks dead and washed out.
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The Epson scan software is so stupid. They have four different modes where they basically take the same options and rearrange them in a different way, except for auto, which is unusable because it crops the shit out of whatever you put in there. Put a standard letter document in there, it’s gonna cut off the margins, as well as part of the text. Put a photo in there, it’s gonna cut some random part out of it.
So I have to scan the entire bed every time and crop it down, which increases scanning time, plus I then have to crop it myself. They also designed it so anything you square to the edges gets cropped at the edge (glass of scan bed goes beyond the scan area).
There are also other software tweaks that supposedly improve your scans, like dust removal. Great idea, except it doesn’t use character recognition, so it just removes random parts of text. Probably fine if you’re only scanning photos, but totally sucky for album artwork. I had to turn all the enhancements off.
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@HiResArt - this is why you need to try out NAPS2. You set up the profile(s) you want and then just get on with scanning.
You know those open source tools that are written by people who actually USE the software? So they actually WORK. Yeah, it is one of those.
In a dim and distant past I wrote software for Epson printer division. An “interesting” experience which explains the madness you are seeing.
Do also notice on my Brother scanner you see a metal ruler in the images above? This is not for measurement. It is because the dumb scanner does not actually scan to the edge of the glass. It scans a little bit short. So I need to add an artificial margin in to make sure I get the whole object I am scanning…
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Now I’m the one feeling stupid for not having the idea to pad out my edge with a straight edge, LOL. I’ve been pulling it off the edges manually as square as I can, but often have to rotate it slightly. I’ll have to look to see if I still have a small L-square.
I have a Brother multifunction printer/scanner for work and although it has an 11x17 scanning bed, which would be super nice for scanning fold-out booklets/posters, the scan quality is abysmal and the scan options virtually absent. For one thing, it has no lossless scan option, so it’s littered with artifacts when you zoom in.
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You don’t really need an L-Square. Just pick the long straight side to line up to a good ruler. I often find paperwork is not perfectly cut anyway.
I have drawn pencil lines on my ruler so I know exactly how much is in shot of the scan. Scanning a CD single J-Card on my scanner is an almost exact fit so I need to know where the real edge is.
Glad that simple ruler tip helped. I got fed up twisting images in my image editor… 
What can’t be seen in that image of NAPS2 is I tend to drop a heavy black book on top of my paperwork and not actually close the lid. Using the weighted book makes scanning booklets easier. And cropping to black is cleaner
Genius! 
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Man, I wish I had known about these tips before I started my project! 
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I am something like 8000 scans in… so it took me a while to learn these tricks too. 
So many hours lost to trying to guess the lineup of a cover on the scanner. Fractional twists.
And no, before someone suggests it, I would not now swap to “AI” auto-correcting scans. Saw an editor do that last month and the results looked like one of those melted Salvador Dali pictures.
I did think about making a carboard frame from a cereal packet. But then stuck with the ruler as it took less thought.
Sometimes simple solutions are the best.
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I use a Canon CanoScan LiDE 400, which is the “step-up” version of the LiDE 300 mentioned here. The vendor-provided software for it is a bit of a pain in the butt, so I use NAPS2. It’s highly configurable, which I quite like: I can scan at 600dpi in color and output to PNG, and in order to get good cropping, I’ve created custom “page sizes” that align with CD covers, Japanese obi, etc. Results can be seen here already, and I will be uploading a lot more here and here in the near future.
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Thanks for sharing. The Canon CanoScan Lide 400 Slim Scanner was one of the ones I was looking at to replace my current one so I appreciate seeing the samples. It’s definitely has a lot more artifacts on the reflective parts of CDs, and it seems slightly blurrier, but for the cost savings might be the way I go if I have to replace this one.
I think I may have figured out what happened, and if true then hopefully you won’t have to stress about your V610 just yet.
In my testing, I didn’t realize it only makes the startup/warmup noises when connected to a computer (and I guess with all the drivers and everything setup because it didn’t do anything when connected to my wife’s computer either). So a lot of my tests where I was just unplugging it and plugging the power back in without the USB connected didn’t matter.
I’m guessing the USB cable got nudged out of the port ever so slightly and so when I plugged it back in after unplugging it, I was able to set it fully in the port. It’s been working fine so far…
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