Brother ImageCenter ADS-2800W Wireless Multi-Page Scanner with Touch Screen

This is a review for the ADS-2800W. I was concerned about this product based on the reviews, but it really stands out compared to the other two sheetfed scanners that I tried: the Epson FF-680W and PlusTek eScan180. Unlike other reviewers say, the processing time is not bad and the scanner is quick. The lower the file size, the shorter the processing time.The Epson scanner has no controls from the scanner itself and cannot scan to a network location as far as I can tell, so it requires a computer to be connected and does not work as a stand alone device.The PlusTek scanner has a nice big touch screen on the device, but has no web-based management console, so all the settings have to be changed directly on the device, which can be cumbersome. The scan quality is also better for photos than for documents (ever crease and wrinkle in documents show up in scans and there is no way to remove these).The Brother scanner is MUCH faster than the PlusTek. It scans with efficiency and speed. Paper generally feeds straight, but in the event it is crooked, the scanner automatically straightens the image, and does an excellent job of it. The scanner has a great web console that allows users to set up quick buttons on the scanner for quick access to customized settings and network locations (these are called "profiles"). The documentation is poor so I had some frustration figuring out how to get the web console to work, but once I figured it out, it works really well. The scanner also feeds smaller papers, like receipts and checks, quite well. The only downside is that this scanner does not perform OCR when saving to a network location, but I have not found another scanner that includes this capability.Overall very happy with the scanner for speed, reliability, and customizability with the web management console. The biggest downside of this scanner is the poor documentation and tech support. It is important to know that the default password on the web console is "initpass" For some strange reason, this information is not included in the manual anywhere. I spend 30 minutes on the phone with tech support and got nowhere. Finally I located the password with a web search.

My wife and I bought this to replace the scanner that was on one of those cheap little all-in-one deals. You know the kind: It has a scanner on the top that accepts a single (one-sided) page at a time and really works best for scanning photos ... not documents. It died, and so we started shopping for a replacement.See, the problem is that we scan a _LOT_ of documents. We homeschool our (three) children and I'm a big IT Geek (a programmer) meaning I like having all of my paper documents backed up on my (very nice, and very expensive) server.Scanning has always been a real pain and a chore for us. One side of one sheet of paper at a time. Moreover, we had to drag out a USB Key so that we could scan each document to it, then move that to one of our PCs so that we could pull the document off of the USB Key and move it onto the server. A real chore that was super time consuming because of all of the manual intervention involved.This scanner has absolutely everything that I wanted:1. It is WiFi Capable (and offers manual configuration instead of only WPS - this is a real gem, as I don't use a store-bought router, and my Ubiquiti Access Point absolutely does not offer WPS WiFi configuration!).2. It can scan directly to a Network Share. Oh sweet loving heavens, I cannot tell you how much time this single feature alone has saved me in moving files off of USB Drives and onto my Network Drives.3. It is lightning fast. Seriously, with it's other features I can just turn the scan on and walk away - which is amazing - but this sucker is so fast that ... well, you'll see.4. It just works. Very - very - minimal setup even for me, and I'm betting my setup is far more advanced than your average user. I set up multiple profiles for one-button scanning of different document types. It will save them automatically to the correct network drive based on the profile for all of our document types based on just one button. Default settings for how it scans and saves each page are configured, and I can modify them prior to initiating a scan job easily and intuitively.Let me give you the best example that I can of how wonderful this little machine is. Among all of our homeschool <stuff>, we have text books, answer books ... and test books. I used our History test book as a trial case: It had 60ish (double-sided) pages, wherein each page equaled a single test (small test, kind of stuff we hand out weekly to the kids). The settings I used were to scan each double-sided page as an individual PDF document (so we'd have one PDF for each page - or roughly 120 PDFs at the end) and save them all to the predetermined network drive.With our previous scanner, we could scan 5-10 pages before it would just start crapping out on us and telling us the USB Drive was full (it wasn't). And it would take ages.I sat the entire 60ish pages into the scanner, hit a couple of buttons, and somewhere around 60 seconds later (I didn't actually time it, I didn't think to) it was done. No muss, no fuss, and I now have 115 PDFs in my network share ready for use.It ain't cheap, but we will absolutely get our money's worth out of this thing. If you are looking to scan documents (not pictures), scan a lot of them, not have to hassle with configuration, setup, fiddling with USB Keys all the time, and for the thing to just work no matter what you throw at it ... then this little guy will do the job.Cannot stress enough how happy I am with this thing.

Estou muito satisfeito, pois já digitalizei vários documentos, com o app para celular ou tablete é possível escanear e enviar direto para nuvem, rápido e preciso.

Gostamos, está atendendo a demanda que precisamos.

Excelente producto, ahorra muchísimo tiempo y es muy fácil de usar si tienes los conocimientos básicos de informática, es muy veloz y ocupa poco espacio. Super recomendable.

Very impressed by the fast shipment, arriving within 4 days! Product meets and exceeds expectations. I do all my scanning from custom links I've created in the Brother app on my desktop (simplex, duplex, colour, etc), and save all my pdf's in searchable text mode. Since this works so well and the machine is small enough that I can keep beside me on my desk, I haven't bothered to configure shortcuts on the actual scanner unit. The scans are quick, including colour. Extra time is required for processing by the computer to make the pdf's searchable. Long 2" cashier receipts scan well too, although because the paper is so thin, they tend to move out of alignment in the document tray as they are being pulled through the scanner. The auto deskew feature works great to straighten these scans. Scanning photos as TIFF's look grainy compared to scanning them as PDF's or other graphic formats - haven't played with it enough to figure out why. Scanner has the option to select Multifeed detection which shows up as a paper jamb. This requires manual paper removal and then starting the scan process again on those remaining pages (not automated to correct on its own like the more expensive models). This feature can be deselected to print thicker, multi-layered cards without jamming. Overall, am very pleased with this scanner. It will save me a lot of time compared to using my All-in-One printer/scanner machine that was very slow in comparison.

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