Document Scanning from a networked computer

Space considerations have resulted in our flatbed scanner being located at one desk while I work at another.

I've been trying to figure out how to access the scanner from another computer.

The "simple" solution seemed to be to use simple-scan via an SSH connection and the sftp the file over to my machine.

This raises two questions:

- Can one transfer a file via ssh for do I need to have a separate sftp session as well? I'm just wondering if I can do both from a single SSH session.

- Whenever I try to use Simple-Scan, it tells me I have don't have a scanner attached. I'm wondering: is the Simple-Scan session, being run on the Scanner's computer over an SSH connection, attempting to find a scanner on MY computer? I was under the impression that programs run under an ssh -X session are run on the remote computer using the remote computer's resources. I just can't understand why I keep having to kick the remote user off the computer in order to use the scanner locally.