Not sure what your point on this discussion is, we use to have the direct scanning feature and it was removed, we don't know for sure why it was removed (we have ideas why), the matter is the software was strip down of features rather than added. And work around are just that, work around, to me the way it was did not need any change.

Cheap? not sure what you mean by that, no one here is trying to build they own software, many user are small companies with not need of specific software, through the years a generic like this one work for many, and keeping like it was is just what we ask.