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Give “'xsane” a look… featureful graphical frontend for SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy). Simple, easy to use.

I use it often for work similar to yours

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/XSane

• Supports several scanning protocols; handles multiple image acquisition devices efficiently: scanners, cameras, video devices
• Allows detailed prescan adjustments w/preview – for example: select area (“…pick out individual photographs from the scan surface”) , contrast, brightness, dpi, to name a few
• Settings for professional scanning; available but not necessary to ‘fiddle’ with: https://www.maths.cam.ac.uk/computing/printing/xsane