what about scanning to WebDAV/Nextcloud/SMB-Share/Paperless-NGX?
Manufacturers seem to have by and large decided that those features are reserved for professional office units priced at >$400, and for everything that can’t scan directly to network drive without a computer you can only operate the machine directly (ie pushing the buttons on the machine) if you have Windows or Mac. Linux users must use a desktop app, browser interface, or smartphone app.
Only because they have enshitified the consumer multi-function devices. They all have the computing power for direct scan-to-network to be standard feature at any price tier.
Sure if it’s a working high quality scanner, but with the phone cameras nowadays it’s pretty close to perfect. I submit government docs like that all the time, never had any problem, if i give it Claude it digitizes perfectly in one shot.
I get it, it’d be nice if there was a simple scanning standard that worked, but it’s not worth all the fuss scanners require today.
Manufacturers seem to have by and large decided that those features are reserved for professional office units priced at >$400, and for everything that can’t scan directly to network drive without a computer you can only operate the machine directly (ie pushing the buttons on the machine) if you have Windows or Mac. Linux users must use a desktop app, browser interface, or smartphone app.
It’s ten times easier to take a picture and crop it tbh
Only because they have enshitified the consumer multi-function devices. They all have the computing power for direct scan-to-network to be standard feature at any price tier.
That is going to be absolutely far worse quality than a scan.
Sure if it’s a working high quality scanner, but with the phone cameras nowadays it’s pretty close to perfect. I submit government docs like that all the time, never had any problem, if i give it Claude it digitizes perfectly in one shot.
I get it, it’d be nice if there was a simple scanning standard that worked, but it’s not worth all the fuss scanners require today.