#1:Brother ADS-1300 Compact Desktop Scanner | Scan Speeds of Up to 30ppm | Single Pass Double-Sided Scanning
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I went looking for a scanner that could handle standard letter size documents, long (6.5"x18") documents plus cash register receipt tapes. This scanner is perfect for all those items. It is pretty quick and scans both sides at the same time. I have not had any jams with standard thickness paper, in fact it handles those waxy register receipts pretty well too. (They seem to only get stuck if they have been crumpled but jams are super easy to clear.)
Getting this to work with Linux Mint was very easy. Brother has Linux drives on their website and it works great with Mint's built in Document Scanner app. (Thank you Brother for remembering us Linux users.)
Pretty good scanner. Too early to tell of its performance but its doing great.
I bought this scanner in order to make up for the inconvenience of using my older huge HP-Officejet Pro 8600 All-In-One printer. Its been a great scanner no question about it. But turning it on, waiting for it to warm up, and much of the time turning on my desktop computer, can have its drawbacks. I wanted something that I could connect to my laptop and quickly scan other documents, receipt, etc. I had been 'eyeing' many of these portable scanners via Amazon, most of which had these great reviews. After too much searching did I finally come down to this one which seemed to be the winner of cost and features. Despite the fact that the stupid mailman threw the package over my 7-foot fence and landed on the lawn, this Brother ADS-1200 seems to have worked okay. I am very happy with it and I am very impressed with its convenience and use. Although the Officejet Pro 8600 is still capable of scanning certain types of thicker media this smaller scanner will never be able to, it is the smaller receipts that this little one will not be beat. That older 8600 has already scanned thousands of items, it is time to give it a break. I am still on the early stages of using this smaller device, I am still learning from it. I mostly use it to scan smaller receipts which do come by the numbers. It will not scan narrow and excessively long receipts which I occasionally do get. These types of longer ones will get jammed and I usually cut them in half or so before I use several utility programs on my laptop to tailor them into a digital 8½ x 11 sheet. Everything so far went well. Some times you will get a lop-sided receipt but I found this freely downloadable Libre Office program having a feature to straighten them up. Although I have read a number of complaints from people buying this ADS-1200, to me I have found none. Interface software was a breeze to install. Again I am still on the learning phase of using this little beast and I will leave updates if necessary. One of things that left me breathless is how fast it scans small stacks of paper. It beats the 8600 Office Jet Pro hands down. Again - still too many features to use and explore. But so far it has been a life saver. Very, very happy with it. I am so glad I bought it.
Handy Portable Scanner with Autofeed
Because I routinely meet with clients outside of my office, this portable scanner saves me both time and postage. The full duplex scanner with autofeed allows me to quickly scan my client's documents to my laptop. I also appreciate that it can be powered with the supplied USB cable. NOTE: the unit is inexplicably programmed out of the box to scan documents in PNG format and to save each page individually. Fortunately, the included iPrint&Scan software allowed me to re-configure the default settings. Now I can scan multi-page documents to save to one file and it PDF format. The software permits you to save these settings, so you don't have to re-configure the settings each time you power up the scanner. While this scanner is portable, I wouldn't call it compact. It's size makes it nearly impossible to fit inside a standard laptop case/bag. Because of its light weight, it's not a problem to haul around.
Three months into is setup and use, I am satisfied with its performance. This way, I don't have to take documents back to my office, scan them, and return them to my clients. I would definitely recommend this unit for professionals that want to save both time and money. NOTE: Too many documents in the autofeed will cause it to jam, but I rarely have that problem.
used it with a USB thumbdrive, dirt simple and easy!
I bought this for an archival project; cleaning out the wife's parents' house and had boxes and boxes and boxes of pictures and documents that needed scanning. I was not looking forward to clicking a mouse the (literally) thousands of times it was going to require to run a scanner application on a laptop while going through these boxes.
This scanner lets you run it without connecting to a computer! Insert a blank thumbdrive in the back, place the picture on the tray (face down and upside down / top first), and hit the scan button. It scans both sides of the picture including the writing on the back and stores it on the thumbdrive as a PDF. Every PDF file name has a 5 or 6 digit counter, so there's no typing filenames and there's no clicking of a mouse a dozen times. It figures out the edges and crops the scan properly all on its own! If the back of the picture is blank, it makes a 1-page PDF; if it has writing, it's a 2-page PDF.
This past weekend my wife and I took this scanner to her parents' house and we set up a sort of assembly line in the garage with all the boxes, and this scanner, and she and I scanned over 4000 pictures and documents in an afternoon! Insert, scan, next pic. Insert, scan, next pic. I stopped after a dozen, and put the thumbdrive in the computer to see if it was going OK, and the PDF scans looked PERFECT! So we did the rest.
Later I used the "convert" utility from ImageMagick to extract JPGs from all the PDFs, and they were great quality. It's nice to have those thousands of pictures archived for all time. The scanner worked perfectly!
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