Twain and Epson V30 Scanner

Hi,
I just bought a scanner (Epson V30) and I can't get the OCR (Abbyy Sprinter 5.0) to work. Scanning of text is not the problem as such, but when I try to enable the OCR a message shows up saying: Twain-Quelle kann nicht geöffnet werden: Epson Perfection V30/V300 (roughly Twain source cannot be opened).
As I'm not sure what a twain source is I have no idea what I should do next and I can't find any documentation in technical support, etc.
Does anyone have a suggestion? I checked the forum, but didn't see anything that would help with this.

I have an Epson V33 scanner. The only thing that worked for me was to buy the extremely good VueScan software. The Mac internal stuff was awful for this scanner.

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