How to get a Canon MF4150 to scan

I've recently moved from a PC to Mac. Canon provides print and fax drivers for Macs for my laser multi-function Canon MF4150. But not a driver for scanning, and they say they don't have any plans to produce one (in spite of the fact that they still are selling this model and don't say anything about Mac functionality being limited).
Is it really true that it is impossible for me to use the scanner on this machine? (It has a feeder and on the PC one could easily scan in multiple pages and save as a single pdf file.) Are there other drivers or workarounds that might enable me to be able to use the scanner? Canon hasn't responded to my last query about this.
Many thanks to anyone who understands this better than I do.

You may find third party scanner drivers help with that scanner. I've listed a few such solutions on my FAQ*:
http://www.macmaps.com/macosxnative.html#SCANNER
Also if you run a Windows virtualization program, you may find that scanner drivers work in such a program on the Mac*:
http://www.macmaps.com/macosxnative.html#WINTEL
Both may offer solutions not provided by the manufacturer.
- * Links to my pages may give me compensation.

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