Using a Twain scanner with Yosemite

I have a Macbook running 10.6.8, and I am trialling Yosemite by running it off a USB drive, to see if I can use my peripherals, notably a Canon LIDE 70 twain scanner.
Searching on the web indicates that Yosemite doesn't support Twain (why would Apple do this???), and therefore Canon hasn't produced a driver for an OS later than Lion. But there are several suggested workarounds, which generally involve copying Twainbridge from my existing system and perhaps using SANE. For example:
Jan Elgil offers a simple installation script for Twainbridge which is supposed to work in Yosemite.
McManus suggests installing several apps to set up SANE.
So far, nothing I have done works. After trying everything, my System profiler still shows that the scanner hasn't been configured, and when I go to Printer and Scanner in the System Preferences no scanners appear when I try to add my scanner. The scanner is definitely connected, because when I restart back in Snow leopard off my HD, the scanner works OK.
I am no expert, so I'm stumped, and would appreciate if anyone has a failsafe method to get Yosemite to recognise my scanner please.
Failing that, I'd appreciate any understanding of how this works. It seems like I need several things to make the scanner work:
the scanner to be connected
Twainbridge
A Canon LIDE 70 driver
SANE (is this in addition to Twainbridge or an alternative?)
Can anyone explain please what of these is required for Yosemite to recognise my scanner, or is something else required? Thanks.

Hi Raicya
Thanks for your interest. I downloaded a trial of version Vuescan, but this didn't help. It gave me this message:
"No scanner was found attached to your computer. If you have one, close this tip window, exit VueScan, turn on the scanner and run VueScan again."
So this confirms that Yosemite is not recognising the scanner, but as soon as I get out of Yosemite and back into Snow Leopard the scanner works.
So the problem seems definitely to be how to get an OS to recognise a scanner. Or the more general question - what is actually required so that the OS recognises a scanner? Is it the presence of a driver in the right place, or what?

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