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We recently ran across this and searching did not give us too many good answers.

Problem - User was moved to a new computer. In our case, they were migrated from Windows 7 to Windows 10, and prior to the move ha configured multiple scanning profiles on Windows 7. They had anumber of document types they scanned and had then each configure with the optimum scanning options.  This was in the built in windows fax /scan center, nt a scanner app.  (Not the HP / fujitsu scanner application)

We ended up logging everything while we created a new scannig profile.  The user created ones are in a folder that does not appear until that user has created one - so while we were looking in the right place, it wasn't there yet - at the time the user old computer was not available 

%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\UserScanProfiles

In there you will (or should) see a bunch of .XML files, one for each profile the user has created.  Copy this folder to their new machine and they should be good. 

This appears to be the location on at least Windows 7 and Windows 10.    We did not try it when changing scanners, just when moving to a ne computer.  It may be relevant that we do not migrate user data typically. This is a corporate environment where saving locally is highly discouraged, so this was done as an exception.

For whatever reason it took us longer than we thought it would to find this..  This should also work to share scanning profiles between multiple user - either user by user or possibly in the public (or default) profile.