Scanner Sharing

No, Windows only allows printer sharing.  The only option would be to use some form of Remote Desktop so that the remote user controlled the PC that the scanner was attached to.  TeamViewer is a good free tool for non-commercial use, or you can use the inbuilt Terminal Services Console -
Start, then mstsc

Of course, you'll still have to have someone load paper into the scanner, so it all depends on how "remote" you want to be!

The thing is with a shared scanner is that anyone scanning a document has to go to the scanner in any case and place the documents in the scanner. So there is no real advantage to sharing a scanner on a network.

Where I worked before, the scanner was on a SHARED workstation where any user could log on and scan their documents. These documents were saved either to the workstation or to their allocated network folder.

In the past, I used RemoteScan:
http://www.remote-scan.com/

It worked very well (but the remote scanner had to be TWAIN or WIA compliant, which most are, including your Scanjet 3000 — but, notably, not the entire Fujitsu ScanSnap series).

However, since Dell acquired RemoteScan, the price has gone through the roof (I paid just $39 for the license 10 years ago). If I were doing it today, I'd take a look at this:
http://www.usb-over-network.org/share-usb-scanner/

Here's a 3-minute video on it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfz1zFfKaMQ

It's the same concept as RemoteScan, but still reasonably priced at $90. I can't vouch for it, since I haven't tried it, but I think it's worth a spin, and there's a free, 14-day trial that lets you share one USB device, which will be fine for the testing in your situation. Regards, Joe

Joe, There must be something I don't understand.

If I have a paper document in my hands & I want it scanned, how do I get the document to a shared remote scanner?

@Joe―Ah bon! Now I get it. Thanks for the insight. I'm more a software guy

;-)

Returning the favor for your GIMP insight! :)

any of these allow just to install Scanjet software on a computer and scan from that computer to shared scanner (on 2nd computer)
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> any of these allow just to install Scanjet software on a computer and scan from that computer to shared scanner (on 2nd computer)

If you install USB Network Gate on both computers, then you can use the Scanjet software on the computer without the scanner to scan from the scanner that is on the other computer. That's also true for the RemoteScan software, but I believe that Dell has made its pricing too high, although I haven't looked at its cost in a while.

Been doing some web research on this issue and found these two other reasonably priced products that do the same thing:

$29.00  RemoteTwain Home
"Makes any Twain compatible scanner as a network scanner"
http://remotetwain.com/

$49.95  Scanique
"Share your scanner across the network just like you share a printer"
http://www.skyshape.com/scanique-share-a-scanner-over-the-network.html

I haven't tried either but am passing them along for your consideration. Btw, I found the new RemoteScan pricing:
https://shop.software.dell.com/682/purl-remotescan-for-lan-client-radio-selection

Makes my $39 license look like quite a bargain. :)  Regards, Joe

this one free
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http://www.usb-over-network.org/share-usb-scanner/