Many vendors of nowadays quite old image and document scanners offer no updated drivers for Windows 10 and newer. Usually only 32bit drivers are available up to WinXP, Vista and Win7. After all, since Windows 10, most of us are running 64bit systems converting those devices into bricks - unless you use Linux.
Solution: Use Linux - in our case WSL provided by Windows to resurrect those beloved scanners.
💡 Versions I used to run things: