Can it scan to a network attached storage (NAS) directly i.e. without a computer? If yes, what type of file would it produce? Searchable texts?
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Yes, it can scan to a USB storage device. It produces a folder titled "Brother" on the device and creates PDFs. PDFs are searchable depending on which version of Acrobat or other software you have.
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This great little scanner uses a USB connection to a computer. It has no internal memory, so you can't use it as a stand-alone item. It depends on computer drivers to work.
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This will support a VMware image over a LAN connection, I would suggest using the aggregated ethernet option which this also supports. DO NOT do anything funky like running encrypted RAID 0/1/5 etc. Run an ext3 (limit 16GB file size) with what ever flavor of raid you like. This will not be fast but will work. Have the VMplayer on a desktop / Laptop and point the player / workstation to the file located on the NAS box.
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I'm thinking of buying this scanner. I am an oral historian and need a portable scanner to take with me on my interviews. I will be scanning photos, news clippings, all kinds of things. Question: does it really work with Windows 7 64 bit. I have an HP laptop I'm planning to use it with. Current feedback would be great. Thanks!
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Besides what others have said, there are free Synology apps with a consistent interface for local and mobile access to the contents of the NAS. These and the OS are frequently updated and redesigned to keep them current. This is all done with a few clicks.
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Well I don't see why not. But it's small we all have our own. The main reason we got it, was we have various sizes of backup documents that we have to attach to our online billing. As far as network we would have to carry our documents load them then back to the computer to hit scan button. Sorry I couldn't help
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That is true. It is not a stand alone unit - it must be connected to a computer in order to retrieve docs/pics. Hope that helps.
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Hello, you can use the Scan Disk, this is what I purchased and it works beautifully! http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords;=scan+disk
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By "file server" does that mean that it can connect to the internet on it's own? without any other device connected to it?Example: Can I leave this drive on at home or the office (connected to the internet, without a cpu), and travel to somewhere with a internet connection and see my data? Or even download or upload to it?Is there any tech info available on this besides the "Data Sheet" which sounds more like a sales pitch then a technical document?
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I believe you can set it up to scan to the PC over the network. I haven't gotten that working though. What I do is to just scan to a thumb drive and then pull the image from the thumb drive onto whatever PC I need the scan on.
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Thanks Ronald. Do you know if any of the Scansnap units have a batch scanning facility?
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It can scan to usb...and on the wifi it has it's own web site that you download the file from
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Yes. Mine is networked and it works great from all laptops or desktop computers on the network. Scanning is somewhat slower over the network as opposed to USB, but it works.
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If you are talking about the Document Feeder, yes! You can load the documents you want to scan on the document feeder and then press scan on the unit, to scan to your PC (that is connected wirelessly). I have only used this feature by pressing the scan from the printer itself, have not tried to load the feeder then start the scanner from PC, but I imagine it should be possible as well. HTH!
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Yes! I am scanning to an SD card, but you can scan directly into the computer. Instructions are included.
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USB connection - yes. Scans to computer - yes. Scans to a USB drive without a computer connection.
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I am sorry that I cannot help on this since I am not familiar with Linux operations. I use with windows operating systems. The scanner does work well for my purposes and the only complaint is that small pieces of paper are sometimes hard to get scanned due to only one small center drive roller.