If you’ve just upgraded to Lion, you may have noticed that a few of your applications no longer work. Following suit, a few pieces of hardware may have also become redundant…

Not to worry – enter emulation!

1. Install Virtualbox
2. Install smaller OS. I used windows 2000; Using mac os tiger/leopard/snowleapard/*nix may be overkill if u only want to use of your scanner. If this is the case you may as well just use the OS directly! I installed from my old disk by following the setup to create a new os using mostly default values. Once complete selecting the new os prompts you to enter the installation disk where you install as you would usually.  There are tons of tutorials out there and I’m feeling too lazy .
3. Install guest additions from the menus.
4. Install Dropbox (You’ll have to sign up if you haven’t already)
5. From the menu goto devices> usb devices> your scanner. If your using windows 2k it will auto install (if not, have a copy of the older easier to obtain drivers handy)
6. In windows 2k goto Start>Programs> Accessories> imaging (Do all your scanning and ‘Save as’ to any folder)
7. Move the files to dropbox and pick them up from Lion (yup – if you haven’t installed dropbox in lion already…)

Voila!