• sat012e@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    The scanner at my last job was great. It was part of the printer, set up by central IT, and could send the scanned document to my email address. 10/10 scanner.

    The AIO printer / copier / scanner I bought myself for WFH sucks as a scanner. Mostly because I’m on Linux, and there just isn’t an easy way to get the documents from the scanner to my computer. I often just use Photoscan on my phone.

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      1 year ago

      I’ve got a Brother AIO printer/scanner, and it has a Linux driver. Even for the scan function.

      I can start the brscan service on my Linux machine and then just press the scan to PC button on the scanner and the scans land in ~/brscan/ over the network.

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        1 year ago

        … I had gone to the Brother site for drivers, but not noticed any of the scanner stuff. It’s less than intuitive, but once it works, it works! Thanks!