I just pulled my scanner out of the closet. It’s a Canon LiDE 60; it’s served me well for many years. I haven’t been using it much lately because I’ve been working direct in Illustrator. It worked just fine the last time I used it, no problems at all.
I tried to scan with it. The system scanner driver wouldn’t recognize it. I fiddled with it for a bit, then remembered my HP printer also has a scanner in it. So I poked at that. Ended up having to connect a physical cable to it; for some reason it doesn’t want to scan over the network, and I didn’t want to get lost in the rabbit hole of trouble-shooting that.
When I finally got a scan of the pencils I wanted out of it, it had applied all kinds of autocorrection and was utterly unusable. Despite the fact that the scan UI insisted all the autocorrection was turned off.
I ended up pulling out my phone, putting the sketch in question on the ground outside in the sunlight, and photographing it. Throw that into Evernote, then pull it out on the computer for work in Illustrator. Total time: maybe 30 seconds? With an image that may not be quite as high-res but is infinitely more usable for my purposes.
Welcome to the future, where everything is either awesome, or a complete clusterfuck of incompatibility.
I still use my aging Epson Perfection scanner which works perfectly, aside from a very subtle streak of lightness near the left edge of the scan.
HP’s scanner-printers are a major pain in the ass. HP’s stuff in general has gone way downhill though.