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My recommendation: Buy a Brother Laser Printer and get a scanning app (e.g., ScannerPro or similiar) and forget about all your problems.

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Little known fact, but you can scan using macOS's Preview. Just do File->Import from Scanner.

Scans from my Brother something-or-other with no apps or drivers whatsoever directly to PDF, over Wi-Fi. Perfect.

TIL. I’ve always used the included Image Capture app for all my scans.

MacOS also has an Image Capture app that's explicitly made for scanning.

The only real problem I have with it is that it wants to do a preview scan first if you used the scanner bed last (as opposed to the document feeder) and it freezes it's interface while that's happening.

Second that. I have an absolutely antique Brother MFC. It prints, scans, photocopies, and it has a $20 generic toner cartridge in it that gives perfectly good print quality. The only downside is having install a 32-bit binary driver to make it work in Linux, with an extra hoop to jump through - scanning won't work until you manually install another missing 32-bit dependency. But once that's done it works. For years. It's enough to make one not hate printing at home.

And with gscan2pdf - not hate scanning too!

I honestly hate dealing with the scanning apps. They're ok, but they're not cheap and require a subscription. I've been looking to replace them with an actual scanner.

Scope out Microsoft Lens (app)

Genius Scan Enterprise is a non-subscription "pay-up-front" scanning app that I've used (on Android) for at least 3 years with complete satisfaction. Current price 25USD but I recall paying noticeably less (I share the app with other users in my family to defray the cost). I previously owned a Fujitsu fi-5110EOX sheet-feed scanner that I thought was the pinnacle of scanning goodness, but when it died after 15 years, Genius Scan proved a more than sufficient replacement for me[1], such that I returned the new Fujitsu sheet-feed scanner I'd bought to replace it for a refund.

I have no affiliation with any of the products I've mentioned above, just a user.

[0] https://thegrizzlylabs.com/enterprise/

[1] NB: my use case does not involve a significant amount of scanning high page count documents.

Why not just use the OneDrive app? I just scan directly in that app.

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