Brother - ADS-1500W Compact Wireless Color Duplex Desktop Scanner with Web Connectivity - White

If you are looking for a scanner for at home use, I'd suggest buying a printer with a built in scanner. If you're looking for a scanner to use at work for medium usage (daily, but not hundreds of pages), I would NOT recommend this one. This scanner has only the capability to handle very light scanning (maybe 10 pages a week), but if you're only looking for light scanning, why buy a $250 scanner?? -There is no set up required for the scanner, just plug a few cords in. -Installation of software was a bit of a longer process, but still nothing crazy. -It scans a little slowly. It claims to scan 18ppm, but if you're scanning at 300dpi or higher, expect closer to 10 ppm. -Pro: the image quality is decent! -It advertises duplex scanning, which is nice, but you would naturally assume that it has the capability to scan single sided pages - wrong. If you want to scan single sided sheets to a network (versus USB) it will NOT let you. (If you want to scan single sided sheets via USB it will work). I spoke to customer service and was told that this is just "a limitation of the device". How is it that the device can scan single sided sheets to a PC but not to a network? This is a major flaw in the product if this is ever to be used for anything other than a home scanner (to which again I would ask why a $250 scanner for your home?). This product can't be used by small businesses or offices looking to scan documents to shared networks. -The device feels very flimsy. The plastic feeder that puts the paper through the scanner snaps into place but feels like if you apply any pressure at all it will snap in two. -The device gets jammed easily. A simple fix, but still a pain. -Sometimes it just quits working and you have to power it off and on -After about four hours of toggling with it (and maybe scanning a total of 30 pages), it refused to scan anything. The screen would read "scanning" for about a minute without doing anything and then would simply return to the home page. While I'm sure this was just a bad device in this aspect, it says a lot about the model as a whole. Returning this product as soon as possible.

I entered the market for one of these scanners after I realized that 90% of the papers in my office did not need to be originals and remain in a file cabinet. so I said what are my options? I was gunna just scan them and upload it to my computer using my printer but then I realized that it would take me weeks to edit each digital document and have them all stored and organized into a digital file...then It hit me, I remembered commercials for the "neat" It was a scanner with a dedicated purpose to de clutter your desk. which was exactly what I needed! it advertised as the businessman's best friend and it was portable unlike a traditional printer/flat bed scanner. but that came out years ago and it was very outdated compared to todays standards. so where does that leave us? well wouldn't you know a whole bunch of recognizable brands decided to come up with their own version. after reviewing all the ones they had on display I was down to 3 models. the Epson ff640 which was almost 600 bucks. the fujitsu for almost 500 bucks or the brother for almost 400 bucks. and I thought why are they so expensive? and I realized the machine was worthless. what your paying for is the name, the software and the portability. so I dug a little deeper and found that brother had made a smaller version for 300 bucks. So I said that was pretty reasonable. picked "the last one on the shelf" from my local bb and brought it home. a month later and guess where it is...back in the store lol. yep it was nice but brother had to make up the cost somewhere. they dumbed down the software and once you run all your documents through the feeder you still have to use the program they give you to re edit and name each one. which is what I was trying to avoid the whole time. it was a waste and my mistake is I already shredded every document. so thanks brother. save yourself the time and just buy a neat desk for 200 if you can deal with the out dated firmware or shell out the extra bucks and go for brothers flagship at least its not as bad as the other 2. oh and don't bother buying those handheld junk. unless ur only scanning one paper a month its stupid.

I have two larger scanners used for big projects. Problem is everyday I don't have a large project. But everyday I have a few things to scan in the course of my day. I used to pile up documents to scan once a week but it just wasn't getting it. So I go to Best Buy and pick-up this scanner for use on the go and when I travel. This Brother scanner is great! I'm now able to scan documents on the go. No longer do have have a bin labeled to scan. My productivity has increased and now instead of needing to find a document from a customer it's already on my computer or iPad. I've used this scanner to scan over a seven hundred documents in 6 weeks and it works great. I use Adobe Acobat Professional and it works pretty good with the latest version but once there was a software glitch after 200 scans that day. So I go to my older version of Adobe Acrobat Professional with this scanner and there is no problems for the rest of that day. I'm back to using the latest version and there are no troubles but I haven't scanned that many documents in one day since. The scanner has a USB port and all the bells and whistles needed to do different types of work when needed. Glad I purchased this product.

The software for organizing folders (where you can put receipts into specific categories you determine) is very limited. Hard to organize items. You must self-learn through experimentation how to set categories, re-organize them if you chose and add/delete non appropriate vendors, categories for a specific folder. Also, the reports format is not changeable. They come pre-set with large data about the user and you cannot add or change fields in specific reports. For me this was a very big disappointment. As to the machine itself, I really like it...again my main disappointment is with the software. I called Brother Support and was told that part of their software package (OCR) comes from a different vendor and if I needed help I would have to go to them. For a casual user and one who is not needing detailed and customizable reports...this is a very nice unit. Otherwise, I would find it hard to recommend to others.

Yesterday I spent most of the day trying all the features of this scanner. I had to chat online, and I called two times customer service support trying to make the feature "send to an email" to work. I Still can't do it, since the operator told me that I have to call my internet service to get information (not Wi Fi username and password) from my provider to make it works...no sense, because I will use this product while I am traveling and the hotels won't give me these information for sure. The product comes with an Installation Manual and not with a User Manual. You are able to download the User's Manual, but it can't explain step by step how to make it works either. If I cannot make this feature to work, I will return it, because it will make this product the same as the small version that costs only $99.00 instead of almost $250.00. For now, I am a little disappointed.

So I've had this scanner for almost a month now, and have to say this is very versatile and one of the best scanners I've had the pleasure of using in a long time. I have NAS and it is able to scan directly into the desired folders without the need of anything else and does so very fast. The DPI of course is not meant for pictures but for documents it is more than enough. The OCR software included is sub par, but the ability to directly upload to google drive allows you to make use of google drive OCR if needed. You can also go back and do OCR on files you scanned direct to network at a later time as well which was great. BR Reciepts is also descent software, I've no experience with Neat profiducts but my guess would be it is not as refined as their software, however the fact that you do not need to maintain a monthly subscription was what made this a much better deal for me.

I bought this scanner to digitize receipts and documents and was not disappointed. The scanner scans both sides of the paper in one pass and is rather quick. I found the scanned images (.pdf) to be of great quality and you can choose what quality depending on how much space you have available. The touchscreen on the unit itself is bright and responsive though not used much, as most of the setting are through the software. The software that was provided was confusing to me and it took me a few hours to find a good quality software. I found one that was a one-time payment (most are pay per month, or year) and that stored the files on my hard drive (most are cloud based). The software is Paperless and it works great with this scanner. Overall I would buy this again, even though I've only had it a short time it has done everything I have expected it to do.

It can only hold a small amount of papers and if you put 3 or more papers in at one time, It eats some of them and tears the ends of the paper. Also when you try to print from your computer, the scanner picks up the signal instead of the printer, so the printer never gets the print job you sent it. You have to turn off the scanner in order for the printer to pick up the print job. I run a paper free company and everything is scanned in. If this is you then this scanner isn't the one. I would recommend the ADS-2000. It's not wireless but its works, and works well. They make a wireless ADS-2000W but its too high right now.