I agree. It's better to just install it on the computer it's connected to. Even if you get it shared so that the person has control over it, that person will have a hell of a time with any document over 1 page. This is the reason my dad's office eventually wants to get a scanner with a paper feeder. We have a scanner on our network, but everyone would just ask me to scan something in for them, so it was pretty useless to do.

ps-in case you were wondering, we got the scanner on the network using HP software. it came with the scanner so I'm not sure where you'd get it.