In my earlier guide, I talked about converting USB printer/MFD to network printer via Raspberry Pi**[ here**](’
(Guide) Converting USB Printer to Network Printer - Home Automation & IoT - TechEnclave’
). As promised, in this part I will tell how to setup the same MFD as Network Scanner using Pi.
The guide is as following:
[HEADING=2]Server Configuration:[/HEADING]
To get started, log back in to the Pi with SSH or directly and install SANE and find your scanner:
Nmap scan report for print-server (192.168.1.151)
Host is up (0.019s latency).
rDNS record for 192.168.1.151: print-server.lan
Not shown: 997 closed ports
PORT STATE SERVICE
22/tcp open ssh
631/tcp open ipp
6566/tcp open sane-port
All good: the Pi has services bound to port 22 for SSH, 631 for printing/CUPS and 6566 for scanning/SANE.
You can use any scanning application depending on your OS, whether Windows, Linux or Android.
You can use any scanning apps from here…