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Hi, I recently bought an Epson Ecotank ET-4850. Pretty happy actually with the printer itself, scanning quality is also quite good. However - it has a fatal flaw that i was not aware of.

I had an Epson WF-3620 that was able to scan to a folder, where Paperless-NGX then could do it's magic. The ET-4850 doesn't support scanning to a folder. It does support WSD, but that's not really convenient...

Is there a way to do all this with a Raspberry Pi or another device that's connected to the MFD?

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[–] Deckweiss@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

what do you mean?

I have an epson ecotank and use it on archlinux with the epson scan software via usb. I select a dir and it puts the scan result there.

[–] cereals@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Scan to folder usually doesnt involve a PC at all. The scanner saves the file on a network share via NFS or smb

[–] Deckweiss@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

ooh I didn't know that, thanks

[–] nexusband@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

For that, the PC has to be on. I'm using that as well, but that's not really what i want it to do in this case. For example...i get a an invoice in the mail, i open the mail and the Epson is in the hallway downstairs, right next to the main door. I put an ASN/Barcode on the original document concerning the user paperpless should file that document under, scan the document and put it in the loose filing bin...etc. Basically, i do not want to have to use the PC.