Silly me.
My wife reminded me that the photo copier also scans . we have a konica-minolta bizhub. After some time figuring this out...the manual has absolutely no information on this...I got it working.
I can scan-to-SMB - which doesn't seem to work to my SAMBA machine
scan-to-FTP which is what I used to get around this limitation.
It is lightening quick. Though I haven't tried colour..I think the scan is only B&W which is sufficient for our needs.