There is no way to direct connect it for scan, you can enable print over a USB cable from PC to printer, but not scan the other way.
The printer can scan to any network location (email,http,SMB,FTP etc), it can scan via a TWAIN driver over the LAN as well, it can scan direct to a USB thumb drive too, but not over USB.
I have no idea what software you are referring to but if it was made in the last 10 years I can't imaging why it would not in some way be usable with a Network scanner since that is the vast majority of commercial scanners.