Find the sheetfed-multifunction printer thing that has been sitting around unused for years. Turn it on, connect up and then realize modern Mac versions don't support this thing (why? who the hell knows). Google around, find out that 10.15 is the last OS that supports this. Boot up my 2013 MacPro, boot up a 10.15 VM, snapshot, install drivers, scan, revert snapshot.
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I recently discovered the Notes app on my phone can be used with the camera to take pictures of a document and convert to a multipage PDF. Worked surprisingly well.
I'm having great, just fantastic success with document scanning in Dropbox on ipads or iphones. Only in the case of 50+ page docs would I consider a sheet-fed scanner.
A few folks have mentioned VueScan which is a much simpler process. 5 years from now when I next have to scan more than 10 pages I’ll take a look. Though realistically I’ll probably forget it exists by then and do the same thing I did today.
@paul Yes VueScan has drivers for many scanners & associated hardware. But it may or may not work as well as the native software & drivers, have to try it to see.
@paul Genius Scan (iOS). Point. shoot. repeat. Software takes care of the rest. magical. I don't have to bring out my Canon document scanner until the job is >15-20 pages.
@paul Had to scan some papers not that long ago. Ended up using KDE’s scanner app (whatever it’s called, or at least it seemed included in the software I could install) and it just, worked. Out of the box, zero setup. I was amused.
@paul As someone else said; just use VueScan. I’ve had a license for…gods, it has to be decades at this point, and as long as my network is stable (not a problem if your scanner is physically connected) it works perfectly. I also have a Really Good printer/scanner/copier for my home office. (Canon MF634Cdw)
@paul not sure I understand the issue, but I’m using a #CanonMaxify printer/scanner and I can use the document feeder for multi-page scanning, including both sided scans. Doesn’t seem to matter whether I use macOS, iPadOS or iOS. I end up with a multi-page file saved to iCloud.
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