Scanner for mixed network

Does anyone have a suggestion for a (network?) scanner that will allow both Windows and Mac machines to use the scanner over a network?
Or, stated another way, we have an office environment with both Windows and Mac machines and we are hoping to find a scanner that we can either plug into one computer and share or plug into our network and access over IP or the like.
I can find several solutions for a Windows only environment- is this a huge hole in the idea of using Mac's in an office situation?
Thanks,
Jared

A number of office-ranger copier MFD's have the ability to scan to a shared folder across the network using SMB or FTP as a protocol. This protocol support allows you to configure shared folders on an individuals Mac or PC and 'push' scan a document directly to the computer as an image (such as TIFF or JPEG) or text (PDF using built-in OCR). This function of pushing gets around the limitation of finding a pull scanner that has Mac software. Also, being networked, it does not have to rely on the sharing device being turned on.
We have a number of Canon imageRUNNER's configured to do exactly this, although the majority of the office uses Mac. The SMB share path to the users shared folder on their Mac is saved into the copier's address book and all the user has to do is select the address after loading the documents into the feeder. The machine has built-in OCR so if they select PDF, the copier does a reasonably good job of converting the scanned image into a search-able text PDF.
On the Canon's this function is called Universal Send. It is most likely called something else on other brands. But the term 'push scanning to SMB' would mean something to any sales rep flogging an office product.
If you didn't want to get a copier-based product there are dedicated office scanners that provide the same feature. Again, you just need to look for a device that support push scanning via SMB or FTP.

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