[Philip67]

I’ve got a newish HP multifunction printer and scanner. I also have a big pile of paperwork I’d like to scan. The HP hardware is great, but the software sucks; it’s slow, clunky, and it forces me to login to my HP account every time I use it. It’s been known to hang until I force quit and reload it.

In short, there’s room for improvement.

I’m in the market for scanning software. Requirements are:

Let me easily capture a scan of paper documents with minimal fuss. The file format should be cross platform and as portable as possible. Vanilla PDF would be ideal.
Work with documents scanned from the flatbed or sheet feeder.
Let me stitch together multi page scans and save them as single document.
At the moment, I give my scans a semantically meaningful name and store in one big folder. I’d be interested in any document management features beyond this, but I’d be happy to continue with my current approach as well, so document management isn’t a dealbreaker.
Many of the documents I scan are multi-page and double sided. If there was a way to tell the scanner to expect, say, a five page double sided doc, and then have it automatically collate the scans together, that would be nice.
It shouldn’t add watermarks to the scanned image.
I don’t think I have a need for OCR - I’m happy enough with a scanned image of my documents. If OCR comes included, then I’m open to that though.

I don’t mind paying for software that makes my life easier, although lower cost is obviously better (as long as it hits the requirements above).

ETA: this will be run on a 2014 model Mac Mini running MacOS Monterey.

Thanks!

[AnneSon]

I understand the frustration with clunky scanner software. Have you considered trying out Smart Engines technologies? While our focus is on scanning ID cards, passports, driver’s licenses, and other documents with high accuracy, we also have a range of solutions for scanning and processing documents in bulk.