A Computer (or a tablet, Smartphone) is required. It can scan to a pdf and do the text recognition without a special software.
i bought one for home use and I liked it so much that I bought another one for work. My company then ordered 36 more for the other colleagues and refunded me.
@Kristian
Yup I own one personally and company owns two. It just works and I have basically nothing to say about them. Except they are awesome. Tried the HP and other scanners and nothing really compares for usability and pressing one button not thinking about is the setting right its just works.
@j_h_o
Wireless or USB3 allowing you to just have it on the network and scan stuff to the software. No it does not support SMTP but really this is more a single user device not a shared resource. You are looking for the Fujitsu FI series
fi Series - Business Image Scanners for Network & More - Fujitsu United States
@TangoWhiskey9
Mostly its the features that count
One button searchable PDF creation
50-sheets Automatic Document Feeder (ADF)
25ppm color duplex scanning.
34 Inch Paper scan for receipts