Brother ADS-4300N Professional Desktop Scanner with Fast Scan Speeds, Duplex, and Networking,White

This is our favorite scanner. Easy set up. Great scanning. Very fast compared to others. We have purchased several

My family's paperwork storage has really gotten out of hand over the last couple years. My wife and I keep all of our purchase / payment records for anything other than food, and after 15 years of accumulating paperwork, receipts, invoices, bills, taxes, and a myriad of other things, we got up to our third filing box. It was filling up *much* more quickly than prior, as we now have three children's worth of school/medical/(etc) being filed away in addition to our 'normal' inflow... So I decided it was time to digitize! I set up a self-hosted Paperless-NGX server/application, the different document types (receipts, medical, taxes, et al), configured automated tagging and filing based on keywords and whatnot, and was finally ready to start scanning. I had no idea what I was in for with trying to use an all-in-one for this - absolutely no idea. We have an HP OfficeJet that has a 35 page capacity document feeder for scanning, and I frankly thought this would be perfect. It's a bit older at this point, but we've kept it because we can use whatever ink we want, the prints look better than average, and it never seems to jam except due to human error... But I'd no idea how SLOW this would be. Sometimes 8-10 minutes for a stack of papers! So I'd walk away to do something else for a minute, come back, and find it had decided to double-feed several times, requiring me to re-scan the whole stack... Again. This was made many times worse by the fact that many of the docs we're needing to scan came in the mail folded at one point, and it seemed the creases in the paper would 'catch' for those far more than others. Finally opted for this scanner - I'm responsible for the network in our house, and I didn't want another wifi device that eventually would stop receiving updates and become vulnerable to security exploits over the air 5-7 years down the line, and this hard-wired option fit the bill perfectly. It also seems to fair FAR better at handling difficult-to-feed papers than anything I've worked with before. The scans are crisp enough that the OCR (optical character recognition, the part of the Paperless server that makes the generated PDF's searchable) has yet to have any issues misidentifying letters/words or numbers. Double-sided is possible in a single pass (no more flipping them over and running them back through for the other side). And this thing is WICKED FAST, especially compared to our old officejet. I know there are faster units out there, but given I've so many different types of documents to scan (and hence need to choose a different profile to use so they scan 1-sided vs 2, color vs B/W, etc), I can't say that I think it scanning any faster would actually be of much benefit to me. The UI (browser based) takes some getting used to, and is frankly a bit clunky... But once you get it set up, you pretty well never have to mess with it again, so that's became a non-issue to me. One of the easiest 5 star reviews I've ever written!

This is the second scanner i purchased, the first being a cheaper brand which i returned. This Brother scanner is great! Feeds many pages effortlessly and super easy to set up and use. Brother makes great products!

A basic scanner that works well. Software was not intuitive but functional.

I've been using this quite a bit for almost a year now. It has held up well and works great and is quite fast. I've been scanning documents, receipts, ID cards, etc. I've scanned at least 500 double-sided sheets with no issues. I'm using it with an Apple Macbook laptop connected via USB cable. The software works great and receives regular updates. Highly recommended.

I'm super close to returning this thing. The only reason I don't is that the Epson 480 device I tried first is WORSE, which isn't saying much for this device. The instructions are horrible. Not detailed enough and apparently one document is sufficent to cover the installation options of 6 different products, some of which have different connectivity and screen options than this one, which has no screen. Oh, and if you want to use it as a networked device, good luck setting the network settings via USB (you can't). Good luck using the (nonexistent) screen to set an IP address. Good luck connecting to the IP address you discovered via ARP or any other mechanism (self assigned 169 address doesn't respond to queries). Good luck using the iPrint & Scan Brother App for MacOS you get from the MacOS App Store. Good luck using the iPrint and Scan iOS app you get from the other App store. Except this time it tells you, "oh, you need a different mobile app". All this time I have been typing hoping it will find my device, but nope! You MIGHT be able to get it to work but you've got to be a Wizard Harry! Because mere mortals and even people who know what TCP/IP stands for and how to do CIDR networking or have the foggiest idea what BGP is don't stand a chance. UPDATE - After I clicked submit on this 1 star review, I noticed in my Unifi network that the IP address changed from 169.x to a 192.x address (which indicates it was talking DHCP). If you see a BRN000... device with a manufacturer label of "Asix Electronics" this is the Brother device. I manually (!) entered that IP address and now the device is connected to the network. Again, mere mortals should subtract 1, maybe 2 stars from this review, but if you know your way around your network and know what a Class C address is, yes, you can probably make this work and two stars very well might be the best you're going to get for a SMB capable home office network scanner.

I was amazed by the speed this device churns papers thru. A nice feature nowhere mentioned is USB drive support - plug a USB, load a stack of papers, press on USB button - and you'll have a PDF on yhr USB stick with scannings. The only think I don't like is device' sensitivity to PostIt notes - it just does not like them afixed to papers, and stops in the middle of a sheet if there's one at the wrong place.

It takes some configuration to get it on the network and set up the scanning destinations (the web interface is not intuitive), but once that's done, it just works. Assign it a static IP address to make your life easier, and configure the buttons. I scan to pdf to a samba network share that Paperless NGX watches, and it's pretty seemless. Scan quality is good, and it only has trouble feeding when the papers are stuck together or bent badly.