How to share a scanner over a network??

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Greetings --

Yes. You have to use a network-capable scanner (which immediately
eliminates most, if not all, USB scanners) and specialized software
(that comes with the scanner) to do this.

Bruce Chambers

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L Hughes said:
How do I share a USB scanner over a wired network? Is it done thru software?
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This may be possible, but WHY would you want
to do it?

Think:

Pick up document
Walk to location of scanner
Put document in (shared) scanner
Walk BACK to your workstation
Scan document
Walk BACK to scanner
Get document
Walk BACK to your workstation
(pant, pant)
Get back to work

Much better to just scan the document to
disk at the workstation it's connected to and
then access the file over the network.
 
I agree with you to some extent. The scanner that I am trying to access over
the network is only a few feet from my computer. My network consists of only
two computers networked mainly for the use of the printer. It would be nice
to be able to access the scanner from my computer so that I can save myself
from saving the image to one computer to just pull it across to another. My
seem like a pain but its an idea that struck me and just wanted to try and
do it.
So, is it possible?
 
If it's a scanner that includes sharing software with it, you can probably
do this. I differ with a few others here who suggest that it's not a good
thing to do. There shouldn't be problems if the scanner and its software
supports sharing.

Which scanner is it?
 
The scanner is a visioneer 5800. The software that came with it is Paperport
7.0. As far as I can tell this software does not have anything in it that
allows networking. I checked the Paperport web site and there are upgraded
versions of this software. Just don't want to spend a few hundred $$$ to do
this.
 
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