Hp officejet 4620 suddenly won't scan to my mac

Hi All.
My HP Officejet 4620 has suddenly decided that it will longer scan my documents from the scanner to my mac.
I have tried everything, I've downloaded the lastest drivers from HP, checked my mac has had all the latest downloads, I believe my scanner is supported.
But, it just will not do it anymore.
This is a very new propblem because I scanned documents about 2 weeks ago with no problems.
Now I just get the message that my scanner is IDLE.
I've gone into utilities and the message on that is Scan to computer cannot be enabled.
Any Ideas anyone i'm getting really fed up with this now. It seems everytime either Apple or HP upgrades, things start to go wrong or things just stop working alltogether.
I don't know what to try next. I do not want to buy a new printer/scanner the one I have now is only 6 months old, besides that would turn out a very expensive hobby if we all had to keep doing that.
Help !!!! Please.
Thanks.
Tricia.

Hi All.
I have found a way around it by following a suggestion from robb92014
I used preview and scanned a document, downloaded it as a pdf.
And it worked!! Thank you Robb92014
Just have to do it this way until HP come up with a solution.
Tricia

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