Brother ADS-3000N Document Scanner, USB 3.0/Network, High Speed Business Scanner, Desktop, 2 Sided Scanning, 50PPM, A4 Scanner, Includes AC Adapter, USB Cable and Professional Software, UK Plug

This is a really great device. Nice design, very well built & simple to use, and the scanning speed is unbelievably fast. It's a little bit bigger than expected is the only negative really. Probably this scanner is more intended for small offices than personal use.Setting this scanner up was very easy. I had it connected to wifi in under a minute, and within 10 minutes had connected to the cloud and was sending scans directly to DropBox. All of this was done via the touch panel on the scanner itself, which is very simple & intuitive to use. No software had to be installed on a PC at any point (yay!) and it also looks like admin-type tasks can be done via a built-in web interface on the scanner itself, although this hasn't been needed so far.Registering dropbox on the device is very simple, via the 'Brother Web Connect' portal. The device is authorized in dropbox first of all, then a temporary access code is entered into the scanner to finish the registration. Really simple and a nice UX overall.What I really like is that documents are OCR'd by the scanner itself, and they go straight to dropbox. No intermediate service is used (that I can determine). It is a little slow to process & upload each scan compared to the scanning speed itself, which is blisteringly fast. The shortcuts that can be setup allow multiple users to share the device and have their scans go to different destinations (DropBox vs Google Drive), and even different folder locations within each service to allow easy organisation of different document types.We've barely started using all of the scanning features but so far we're very impressed.

I like most people, don't read instructions until there is a problem. I rather plug in a machine in and hope that what I want to do can be done easily.In this case it was exactly as I'd hoped. I have been using a flatbed scanner to scan documents to go out to clients. Generally, these range from 40 to 50 pages long and since my old flatbed scanner will not allow me to feed too many pages in it was taking me literally hours to scan and bind the documents.I can now put a 50-page document come up with writing on both sides of the page through the scanner and the scanner speedily scans and then releases the papers in the order they went in. I must admit I was very surprised to know that the scanner will assess if there is writing on both sides of the page and if so scans both sides.The scanner was a doddle to setup, but I do not confess to know all of its intrinsic parts and what you can do. I just needed a scanner to save me time and this does just that. I also needed a scanner which I could plug into my computer or into a USB stick. in this case it does use a USB 2 connection and whilst this isn't the fastest or most convenient it does work well.All in all, I am happy that the scanner has saved me time and money and I would certainly recommend that machine to anybody who has documents of up to 50 pages to scan. I only use it maybe 2 to three times a week so I can't say that I've overused it. However, it has worked well what is been asked to do.

We needed a networked scanner for a small office. This was purchased to replace a 15 year old HP Scanjet 5590 which has over the years dealt with tens of thousands of documents. A prime consideration was that we needed an operating system-agnostic scanner, as we have been purely Linux here for many years (apart from a few Windows machines for legacy use, including the 5590 scanner).The ADS-2700W can be set up entirely via its web interface, which is straightforward to use. We opted to configure to send scans via email as we run our own email server. Shortcut keys allow for programming to email to individual users at preset configurations (we allow for B/W, grayscale or colour).In use, it's very impressive. Scanning is very fast, the sheets flying through the feeder, and seconds later arriving as an email.It would be nice to be able to scan to print, and (at least in a Linux environment) this should be pretty straightforward to set up using inotify(7) and SFTP (which the scanner supports).Only complaint so far is that the flip-down sheet scanned-sheet catcher is unduly flimsy for an office machine. Even with careful treatment this will not survive more than a few years. The 5590, in contrast, was very robust.

Glad l did my research. For a small business this device is invaluable and very impressive. Managed to scan an A4 arched levered binder in less than half a day (over 500 double sided documents in colour). At the price point this may not seem like the fastest machine when you look at the pages per minute, however, this becomes irrelevant. What is really important and what really impressed me, was the speed at which the software converted the images into a PDF over WiFi. I also like the fact that it can be used by multiple PCs and that it is compact (the paper tray can be folded away). It also has a touch screen interface. Well done Brother. 5 Stars.

The media could not be loaded. This scanner does a great job - it is brilliant for archiving and scanning to a desktop PC! The software is pretty good too, works flawlessly even on Windows 11. It has a remove blank pages feature, feeder settings, rotation settings, and a lot of other nice features.Just be aware this scanner takes paper from the back and captures it bottom up, so you’ll need to put your stack of paper in backwards and upside down for the intended result!