If your scanner drivers hook into SANE, I think saned supports sharing a local scanner over the network, so you could set that up in a container, similar to set

If your scanner drivers hook into SANE, I think saned supports sharing a local scanner over the network, so you could set that up in a container, similar to setting up CUPS in a container for printer drivers. Here's the document for setting that up: https://wiki.debian.org/SaneOverNetwork https://wiki.debian.org/SaneOverNetwork A container is nice because you can also be sure that the scanner container only exposes the saned socket, and has no other network access.