Older Canon scanner driver

I have a nice functional older Canon scanner (model #N1220U), which ran great under OS 9 under Classic with the driver that came with it, which was great until I upgraded my mini from a Power PC to an Intel—no more Classic and no more OS 9.
I have searched the Canon site for a driver compatible with Mac OSX and found Scan Expert v. 380X which I downloaded. But it turns out that is only a Photoshop plug-in or something. I don't have Photoshop to plug it into.
Does anybody know what free standing driver will run my still functional, little used scanner? And where I could get it?

That may ultimately be it. It is $40 (although they don't make it easy to find that out) and that may be the most reasonable solution, short of simply buying a new scanner.
I can tell you it won't be a Canon. It isn't that old that they should have no driver that is compatible with a modern operating system.
Thanks for trying. That may be the ticket. If you have any other ideas, send them along.
Or anybody else.

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1. Is there an exclamation mark or question mark in Device Manager after plugging the scanner? If so, please let me know.
2. Which software is used on the machine to scan file, the built-in application or Canon software? When trying to use the application to scan, is there any error information?
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ta

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I tried to add a device, the only new choice was the MF4350 FAX which is including in the scanner driver along with the tool box. I added the fax device, no tool box in MAC Doc.
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Canon Scanner is from a company called Canon. The following link shows it is only compatible with Windows 7:
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