ADS-4700W Professional Desktop Scanner with Fast Scan Speeds, Duplex, Wireless, and Large Touchscreen, White

At first I had trouble getting this to work properly from my computer. But Brother has been upgrading the desktop software and that is making a huge difference. The firmware is also being upgraded. Just a little glitch remaining in the paper handler, if you are scanning multi-page document of exactly the same size paper that is a little "sticky" and pages drag the others along, the scanner stops with a "jam" message and throws the scan away. This has always been a problem with multi-page scanners, so nothing inherently bad here. Everything else is amazing. Perfectly small footprint on my desk. Different size papers in the stack? No worries, it just does them all. Some double sided and some not? It is smart enough to skip totally white pages (most of the time). It's super fast! Make sure you extend the catch tray, the paper comes flying out! I have thousands of archive pages of lots of different formats to scan, this is the perfect unit. Unfortunately the free PDF handling software package is total crap. It's not from Brother, its some knockoff software, of which the company apparently has been acquired or gone under, anyway its useless. So if you're doing PDFs, budget for a PDF manager to organize the resulting scanned documents. Rotating pages, deleting pages you don't need, merging PDFs into archives, etc. is something you'll want to do once the scanner is finished and the PDFs are on your computer.

Precisely what our (medical) office was looking for to scan documents directly into a shared Synology NAS. Set up was easy and flawless. No need to connect USB, etc. Simply connect the scanner to your network via ethernet (or wireless) - and configure NAS details (IP address, shared folder name, account ID and pwd on NAS to use), profiles, etc. from any computer on the network via browser (not complicated. just need the scanner's IP address from the front panel and the factory set admin pwd on the label in the back).The whole set up process, from opening the box tp creating the shared folder on NAS, account etc. took less than 30 mins. and we were rocking. Scan speed, even for color, 2-sided was surprisingly fast. Physically, product looks well-built despite being all plastic and light in weight. Super pleased with the product. Highly recommend it for dedicated scanning use.

After trying some of the competition I had lowered my standards for scanners. so overall it is an acceptable device. 4 out 5 stars is taking to account the competition being worse. it would be lower on its own. The ability to save to network without using a computer in the middle is very nice. although the interface is clunky, and almost none of its features are available when doing so. if you want the various software features you need to be using windows and install their clunky proprietary software. it DOES have a detection mechanism for multiple pages entering at once. which is annoying common when multi feeding. overall it is fast. although nowhere near as advertised. as it takes longer to process a page than it does to scan it. and if you want your scans to look reasonably well you will need to scan at 600dpi (max). don't worry about file sizes, it will compress them very well afterwards. It cannot handle receipts. you can narrow down the input to the size of a receipt. but the roller won't grip it properly and it will twist while scanning. on a standard 12 inch receipt. the bottom was about 1 inch off to the side. and then it automatically crops the receipt based on the top of the page not the entire thing. which means it will cut off a sizeable portion of the receipt. making it useless. overall, I think I am just going to stick to flatbed scanner instead.

Once it hits 20-35 pages scanning it disconnects from the computer which, computers hate. You know how computers will say DO NOT UNPLUG OR TURN OFF during transfer because it corrupts data? Yeah the scanner unplugs itself for us. Lots of errors and software breaking involving resetting computer, reinstalling software and hours of the day lost (multiple weeks and months, my IT guy is losing his mind) Scanner Cannot handle what it’s advertised:/ sending back for a replacement will amend review if I got a lemon and I’ll swear up and down brother is the best, and I was wrong if that is the case. But it seems software and firmware related problem, can’t handle large file sizes. If your gonna spend $450 on a scanner in 2024-2025 it better darn work as advertised.

Update: 1 week of work later SFTP FTP and Email work. None of the cloud options will work. It works, extremely fast but an absolute nightmare to configure having to go back from on screen gui to web access gui. Very disappointing. You can only change icons on the gui from the gui. To add shares you have to use web access. You cannot make shortcuts from the web access but you can from the gui on screen. None of the web apps or plugins loaded. Server not available. Cannot use with any modern storage simply. Its like this product is stuck in time and abandoned. that aside. It scans well. Applying shares is a huge PITA for this device. May be returning if I spend any more time on it. The lack of cloud services is one thing....I can work with that and SMB share....if it works simply.

Great scanner. Saves us tons of time

Buen producto, era lo que esperaba escanea muy bien

Ótimo produto. Vale a pena. Super recomendo

The interface is poor, hard to understand - but the functions are good and the quality is good. The price was right - otherwise, I would have picked up competitions. Second one I got, so am getting use to have it works - issues relate to software not finding the unit etc. not easy locating where to set static ip etc. But if you are technical, you'll figure it out.

Not difficult to set up, but already own a Brother printer, so very similar. Set up a document server on a USB drive plugged into my router with scan to network. It'll scan to FTP, but there's a hiccup if you have your NAS box set to go on standby. Sheet feed scanners are way less jammy than multi-function trays, but staples are still the enemy.

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