Not everyone is set up the same way - we run the QB Desktop on a remote cloud server (like Rightneworks, only we manage it).  The scanners are local.  This workaround of yours would force a lot of jockying back and forth bewtween a local PC and the VPN tunnel to the remote PC.  It's a royal pain to flip back and forth and there is no drag and drop with this setup.  So Intuit really caused a lot of issues for us with this simple tool being removed.  I understand the scanning software company was bought out but after 3 years and no attempted fix, it's just a plain middle finger to a lot of customers.  Scanning is a basic office function and to not support it does show they are ultimately seeing their future as a cloud-based SAAS company.

QB Enterprise is really not that great at all - it's light years behind the big corporate entries but as someone suggested earlier, it's 50K by the time you get those more polished programs and an IT programmer to get everything up and running.  A couple thousand a year is a better investment for smaller businesses.  I'm going to spend the next couple months thinking about our next move - we are running 2021 now but that will sunset early next Spring and then we have to have a plan in place.  What an unnecessary PITA this is.