Cost Effective Scan-to-FTP Products?

An anonymous reader asks: "The law firm I work for uses a document routing system that picks up TIFFs or PDFs in server directory and processes them. We're using digital copiers with scan-to-FTP functionality to get them to the server's input directory. So, we need a cheap, easy to use unit for doing scan-to-FTP (or SMB). Copiers are just too expensive to sprinkle around a floor and PC-scanner solutions are just too big, complicated and time intensive for the users. I have found a couple possibilities doing web searches, but I'm still wondering what other Slashdot readers are using for this."

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Any recent scanner with buttons

[AwaxSlashdot]

I own a Canon LIDE-50 scanner (2 years old, runs from USB power, fast and precise). It was bundled with a small utility and has 4 buttons on its front side.
I can assign realy basic actions to each button with the utility:

• Scan and print
• Scan and mail
• Scan and launch OCR
• Scan and save to disc
• Scan and launch application
• ...

For your problem, you can:

• scan and save to mounted SMB share
• scan and launch simple BAT file uploading via FTP the file passed as parameter

Your workflow becomes:

1. place document on scanner
2. press button
3. next!

AWx