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?

  • tritonium@midwest.socialEnglish
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    12 days ago

    If you don’t mind using your phone then this is how mine is setup.

    I use Microsoft Lens on the phone to make the scans. The folder that Microsoft Lens outputs to is synced to the Paperless consume folder with Syncthing. So basically, all the scans that I take with Microsoft Lens go right into Paperless automatically.

    Even though I also have a printer/scanner, I find myself using my phone more often for convenience even if it does suffer some quality.