Scanning with Photoshop CC

I'm using Photoshop CC to scan in images, and I'm absolutely infuriated with the way that the "import from device" seems to work in CC as opposed to the way that it works in CS6.
In CC, when using a scanner, after you have imported the first image Photoshop will not make the device function. You can force an overview scan to happen by unplugging and replugging the scanner or selecting another device and then reselecting the scanner you are trying to use.
Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe this is because of some issue with the two different computers I've been using. If anybody has a fix for this behaviour, I'm willing to give it a go.

Well, if it doesn't work, it's very inefficent, yes. That is what I'm saying.
Also, as I've said, this is a problem that is found only within CC. Earlier versions are not effected by this problem.
While it's totally possible for me to go and use other software (I'm on a mac, so it's Image Capture for me) I find that it's actually less efficent for the person driving the software. I mean, I know I can set up Image Capture to punt scans over to Photoshop CC - that's trivial - but if I'm flicking between applications I might as well check my email, and then I'm answering some question from somebody, and then ten minutes has gone by and I haven't finished the scanning. So it kinda depends how you define efficiency.

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I did this and restarted the computer but still nothing. I tried 9 afterword and it still works, but no doubt added these deleted paths back. I'm stumped. Sorry for being a nuisance. I don't suppose it should be this hard. Jumping around and fixing this and then that makes it difficult to know if something is being missed or still needs to be done and then there is the possible issue of accomplishing all this in a certain order.
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com.adobe.PhotoshopElements.plist
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Directions for finding that library are here:
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Also go to the Saved Application State folder in the library and delete anything related to PSE.
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I just downloaded Lion (10.7.2) and everything works fine, except ...
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I ask because our group ran into a similar problem. We had output from an analog strip chart (don't ask) and we needed to analyze it. I stuck the paper chart into my scanner and edited the chart with a photoediting program I had (Photoshop). When you do a scan, you get a lot of artifacts: the bumps on the paper, smudges on the scanner window, etc. With Photoshop, I increased the contrast (while visually checking that no data was lost) and I erased marks that the researcher had made (like "This is the peak here", circled). Then I saved the resulting picture as a bmp. (NOT a jpeg)
Then I wrote a program that would read all of the pixels, and, when any pixel value was darker than a minimum, I put that point into an array of data. Usually there were several pixels per datapoint, so I used error bars to indicate all of the pixels that were at that x axis position. This program was very simple. I hacked it in a couple of hours. (*blush* it isn't good code.. I was in a hurry)
Even if you got these scanner APIs, you'd still have to analyze the picture, right? So you'd have to write something similar anyway.
2) What sort of survey is it? Is it a yes or no (mark or no mark) in specific locations? Or is it character recognition?
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