Networking scanners

[Vernon Huff]

I want to pass on some information on how to network a flatbed scanner
so that the scanner can be shared between all users on a network. I was
told by Microsoft that scanners could not be networked, but after
reading this in PC Magazine, "RemoteScan's new RemoteScan Server makes
any scanner a network scanner. Just install the server application on
the computer to which the scanner is attached. Now any computer running
the RemoteScan client can use the scanner over the network." -
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1537345,00.asp

I tried the RemoteScan software from http://www.remote-scan.com and I
can say that it works.

Language on their web site sum it up well: "Now a single scanner can
meet the needs of an entire office," which is exactly what I have been
doing for my clients.

I'm not involved with the company, just passing along this money saving
info.

Vernon Huff
- I like to drink to remember,
- but I keep forgetting to drink.

 

[Mike Levy]

And I'll just keep sharing a directory on each computer, walk to the
scanner ANYWAY, scan the document, save it on the remote machine, take
my document back to my machine. Only ONE trip to and from the machine
equipped with the scanner (compared to 2, one to LOAD the document on
the scanner and one to retreive it from the scanner) and no software
to troubleshoot if there's an issue...

 

[Colon Terminus]

Thanks for sharing your information.

Were you born stupid? Network scanning is abut the dumbest idea I've ever
heard of.

Think about it ...

 

[Bob I]

Do you drive to the taxi stand too?

 

[nut cracker]

Ever heard of an HPScanJet ?

It will scan a document, and then email a pdf to you. Then you can attach it
to an email, or put it on the web, or whatever...

And it just happens to need a NETWORK to do it.

Regarless of the original article that the OP is talking about, you seem to
be the stupid one.

I sure am happy that I dont work a visionless, condescending jagoff such as
yourself.

NuTs

 

[Jetro]

Vernon,
I would regret saying that but anyway:
Do not take these replies seriously. I bet the guys don't have any public
scanner attached to THEIR OWN box and think they have the right to kick out
any user when it comes to scan.

 

[Gadget Guy Bob]

The advantage of using RemoteScan is:
1) It is a software solution that works with all scanners, not just
scanners that are already network enabled.

2) Is much less expensive than buying a hardware scanner.

There are very clear reasons why sharing a scanner on a network makes
a lot of sense. The reasons wont make sense to anyone who works alone
on their own computer, but for anyone who shares office space and
resources, sharing a scanner is a good thing. Just as now it is 2nd
nature to share printers.

When you have a scanner that is not shared, anytime anyone needs to
use it, they have to take over the use of the computer where the
scanner is attached. By networking a scanner, anyone can use the
scanner without having to dedicate a single computer just to scanning.
By locating the scanner on a counter or table where it is near to
several office workers (exactly as printers are located in offices), a
person would place their document in the scanner and then use their
own computer and their own software applications and acquire the image
directly into their application.

Also, if you are in a large scale, industrial environment where
Terminal Services are in use, RemoteScan seems to be the only
non-hardware solution that allows software running on the Terminal
Server to use scanners attached to client machines.

All the posts above blasting the "idea" of sharing scanners as lame
are clearly coming from people who are so anti-social they have never
been able to hold a job in an environment where it is necessary to
work with others; thus to them the idea of "sharing" is as foreign as
"networking." Lurkers don't need to share, just as they don't really
need to worry about saving time or money, as insulting appears to be
their commodity that allows them to subsist ad infinitum.

For anyone else, I suggest if you need to network your scanner, you
check out the cool new software from http://www.remote-scan.com

GadetGuy.