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The scanner at my last job was great. It was part of the printer, set up by central IT, and could send the scanned document to my email address. 10/10 scanner.
The AIO printer / copier / scanner I bought myself for WFH sucks as a scanner. Mostly because I'm on Linux, and there just isn't an easy way to get the documents from the scanner to my computer. I often just use Photoscan on my phone.
A few years back I bought a networked xerox scanner for that reason - its not ideal and rather outdated, but at that time was pretty much the only thing with a document feeder capable of generating multi page PDFs without having to control it from app or computer.
I'd be thrilled if it had a USB port, and I could just have it scan to USB. But nooooooo...