I can scan over wifi on OSX without installing additional drivers by just opening up the "image capture" app that OSX ships with. I can also just plug in a USB stick and scan straight from the device to PDF without having to deal with the computer for that.
It also features an automated document feeder so I can just place multi page documents on there and hit start and it does it's thing.
Works pretty decent and gives me a color printer and fax for free.
If I want OCR, I just drop the resulting PDF files on Velocraptor (clever pun, http://www.velocraptor.com/ ) and that does a nice job too. For me it's mostly about simplicity. I start to get annoyed when they bundle software with a device although there is perfectly fine OS functionality that was made to do the task
I went for the the canon pixma mx340 (ref link: http://amzn.to/j2hNRZ , non ref link: http://amzn.to/k27SoI) and couldn't be happier.
I can scan over wifi on OSX without installing additional drivers by just opening up the "image capture" app that OSX ships with. I can also just plug in a USB stick and scan straight from the device to PDF without having to deal with the computer for that.
It also features an automated document feeder so I can just place multi page documents on there and hit start and it does it's thing.
Works pretty decent and gives me a color printer and fax for free.
If I want OCR, I just drop the resulting PDF files on Velocraptor (clever pun, http://www.velocraptor.com/ ) and that does a nice job too. For me it's mostly about simplicity. I start to get annoyed when they bundle software with a device although there is perfectly fine OS functionality that was made to do the task