RemoteScan

RemoteScan gives users the ability to scan in remote sessions: it connects TWAIN and WIA scanners and cameras attached to a local workstation to scanning applications running on a Terminal Server / Remote Desktop host, Citrix, VMware or Microsoft Azure. Connect your scanner to one computer and use it from the application that runs on the remote server, as if the scanner were attached there.

There are several situations where you need RemoteScan. Remote Desktop and Citrix sessions do not always pass scanners through reliably, so users of hosted document management, medical or accounting software cannot scan directly into those applications. RemoteScan solves this with two parts: the RemoteScan Server runs in the system tray of the computer with the scanner and communicates over the network (TCP port 6077 by default), while the client part on the remote host presents the scanner to the hosted application through a TWAIN driver. It works with TWAIN 2.x and 1.x drivers and with flatbed, sheet-fed and card scanners, multifunction printers, webcams and digital X-ray devices, and it includes defaults and templates for resolution, color depth and image size. RemoteScan is developed by Quest Software and is widely used by healthcare and financial organizations; it is commercial software with a time-limited evaluation version.

RemoteScan allows users to scan from a locally attached scanner directly into applications running in Remote Desktop, Citrix or VMware sessions.