[PLUG] question on automating a scan to computer operation

[American Citizen]

Hello:

I have a Hewlett Packard Officejet Pro 8600 scanner/fax/printer/copier 
connected to a LAN.

Has anyone been able to get a LAN-connected scanner to automate scanning 
to a Linux OS folder, from the scanner itself? (computer and printer are 
on a LAN)

I spent over 205 mins today manually scanning 107 pages of 8.5" by 11" 
sheets, and had to walk over 107 roundtrips from my scanner to my 
desktop, which was about a 50 ft roundtrip and this is physically tiring.

I would like to automate this, if possible, by only feeding in sheets at 
the HP scanner/printer, instead of manually kicking off xsane to import 
into GIMP and doing several manual commands in GIMP.

If you have done this, please give an explanation of how you got this to 
work? My OS is OpenSuse Leap 15.5 linux

Randall