For the scanner:
- Very good to get a PDF or an image scanner (the scanner is faster than my Epson V33)
- For OCR, go your way; Canon has since abandoned its partnership with OmniPage, the proposed house software is simply ... no. And there alone Epson (and FineReader) fared handily.
Well, I did not need to scan, but finding a single-function printer holds the obstacle course!