Features:

  • Compact and lightweight measures under 12" in length and weighs less than 1 lb
  • The drivers and utilities on the CD-ROM/ DVD-ROM for Windows 8 or earlier bundled with your Brother machine are NOT compatible with Windows 10; All drivers and utilities on the CD-ROM can be downloaded on Brother’s website
  • Daily Duty Cycle (max. pages)- 100. Media Weights- Single Sheets (min/max)- 16 - 28. Paper Size- Single Sheet (max.)- 8.5(W) x 32(L) Inches
Worth the money

Briefly, the scanner was delivered on time, in good condition and works as advertised on my MacBook Pro. Now, the full review… Disclaimers: I primarily use this for single page documents; at most, I’ve scanned a 14-page document. I cannot comment on the software beyond the DSmobileCapture that runs the scanner, like the BR-Receipts or Presto!PageManager. because I haven’t needed them yet. That being said, the scanner is great. It works better than I expected. The Brightness and Contrast can be adjusted to optimize the scans. The multi-page scanning is easy; just toggle the checkbox that says “Multi Page Output”. Under ‘Options’, you can also set the page orientation, for example, allowing you to scan receipts in sideways and have the files be right-side up. That may not sound impressive, but when inserting them sideways helps keep the PDFs nicely squared off, that’s a lot of documents that you WON’T have to go through turning 90° by hand. Lastly, I had been worried about feeding my documents in straight, lest the PDFs come out tilted, but it turns out not to be an issue. The DSmobileCapture software automatically finds and aligns the top edge, even if the page is fed in askew, attempting to square off the PDFs. The only annoyance I have is that you have to manually feed in EACH PAGE, instead of having them in a stack and taken up by the machine one-at-a-time. All in all, the convenience of having a portable scanner and the amount of time I now save compared to my previous scanning methods makes this well worth the money.

Works well with Open Source scanner software

Works well with Linux and Windows. I would usually scan into TIFF and use Tesseract (command line OCR program from Google) to convert it to PDF. On Windows, I use "Not Another PDF Scanner 2" (NAPS2) instead of the programs provided by the Brother CD. NAPS2's is a lot more user-friendly for creating multi-page PDF/TIFF. On Linux, I use gscan2pdf. Gets the job done. One down side of the scanner for Linux is that the Linux SANE driver doesn't auto-crop like their Windows TWAIN driver, this makes batch jobs a little time consuming. I have yet to find a Linux set up that is streamline enough for creating multi-page PDF/TIFF.

Highly Recommended!

I decided to get this for a fairly BIG project... We had an entire steamer trunk FULL of family photos, 15+ years worth. We are downsizing to possibly live tiny and we knew this was a time consuming project. The Brother Mobile Color Page Scanner was easy to set up on our MacBook Air, The photos and holiday cards (Christmas, Birthdays, Weddings, Anniversaries, etc.) We scanned them onto our computer and then uploaded them onto Shutterfly to make years photo albums! We consolidated 15+ years of papers and photos into a 15 slim photo albums that fit perfectly on a small bookshelf. I HIGHLY recommend this to anyone who wants to go paperless, consolidate OR going tiny! This scanner is slim, portable and fast. I was hesitant to all the great reviews but I am here to validate them all! This is a great product.

BARGAIN workhorse!!!

Wow! This little scanner is everything I hoped for. I travel extensively for business, rarely actually being in my US office where I can scan on the multi-function. I rack up some pretty large 5-figure business expenses each month and I need to submit full receipts with my monthly expense reports. This little scanner has taken the chore out of expense reports! I carry it right in my laptop messenger bag and can scan while in a hotel room, coffee shop, and even while on a long flight. It can scan even a highly crumpled receipt without the slip sheet, but Brother provided one just in case! The included PaperPort SE software is a breeze to use and plenty robust - I set up a custom scanning profile just for receipts and love that it's a snap to create multi-page PDFs full of the receipts. I keep receipts organized on the PaperPort desktop, which is great when I need to look back at receipt details. The PDF software provided is decent enough for the task, but I also have full Adobe Acrobat Professional that I use instead when I need to reorder receipts or remove/replace some.

Amazing scanning capability!

This was the best buy I ever made. It's small so it doesn't take up much room. The scanning quality is amazing! When I sent some scanned old family pictures to my "Techie" brother he thought I bought a higher priced scanner. I love it and can scan just about any size up to 8 1/2" wide.

Excellent scanner, so easy to use

Love this thing! Have scanned hundreds of pages from our file cabinet to go paperless. Still have hundreds of pages to go, but confident it will do the job easily. Plugged into my MacBook Air, downloaded software, started scanning. I created a folder structure, and the software lets you define location and file name before you scan. Multiple pages are easy, just keep scanning until last page is done, then click Cancel and the document is stored as multi-page PDF. If document is shaded or background color, just switch from B&W to Color. Can set resolution higher if needed. I normally use B&W at 200 dpi and all documents are clear and readable. When you insert the document, it takes 2-3 seconds before the scanner “grabs” the paper, then you let go and click the Scan button in the software. Scan takes 8 seconds for 8.5 x 11 document. I was able to scan drivers license and other wallet-size items easily as well. My only quibble would be that the documents are frequently slightly skewed because the process of feeding into the slot without a feeder tray is prone to slight error. Doesn’t affect the readability, so not important. I highly recommend this quality piece of gear. So simple, intuitive, portable, reliable, and solidly-built.

Reliable, Fast and Easy

This is an excellent scanner, fast and reliable, and I highly recommend the PaperPort document manager that comes with it. I bought this scanner as a replacement for a Neat Receipts scanner because the Neat website was so buggy that their scanner was almost useless in practice. The Brother customer service is also excellent, I submitted a request and received a phone call from an actual person within two days to fix my problem. The scanner is compact and powered through the USB cord, so you only have one cord to worry about. I scanned a document with fine print at the different resolutions (200, 300, & 600 dpi), and decided that I prefer 300 dpi for most routine scanning, and 600 dpi for items with fine print. Scanning is fast, at least four times as fast as my Neat scanner at 300 dpi, and slightly faster even at the highest resolution. I have been using it for three months with no problems. The disc that came with the scanner was defective, but I was able to download the scanner driver from the website and get started. I had to contact tech support for the PaperPort software, and as I said eariler they called back pretty quickly and made certain I installed the software with no difficulty. There are guides for Getting Started and How To, which made the software easy to figure out. The PaperPort software opens with a view similar to File Explorer. I can see the entire Documents folder on my computer, and a folder was created for My PaperPort Documents, which is where I keep my scanned documents. To scan a new document I just select the folder I want to send the document to (any folder in Documents), click the "scan now" tile in the menu bar, then I check the settings and go. It defaults to the previous settings, but I can easily change the resolution, B&W/color, etc. before scanning. Very easy and intuitive, and so much faster than the Neat system! This doesn't come with an on-line cloud service like the Neat system, but that also means I don't need to pay a monthly subscription. I can just back up my documents to a DropBox and have on-line backup and access that way. Overall I am very happy with this scanner, and finally clearing my desk of all of the documents that were backing up as I struggled with my old Neat system.

This Compact Scanner Fit the Bill.

I love this scanner. I'd had all in one machines in the past that either gave up the ghost on the printer side, or on the scanner side. I did not want to purchase another all and in machine. I purchased this scanner to scan documents both to save on my hard driver, and to fax out. I sent a fax through a pack n send store recently and the cost came to $11 for 8 pages. Ridiculous! By purchasing this item, I'll recoup that money in a year's time. While others have complained that this device isn't "intuitive", what do you want for a small compact scanner at this price? Anyone who is the slightest tech savvy will have no issues figuring out how to save documents. I haven't tried it with photos yet. That's a whole other ball of wax. I didn't buy it for that purpose. I love that it is so compact and takes up very little room. That is a huge plus. I can't imagine why I'd take it with me anywhere. My line of work doesn't call for that. But it is nice to know that if I needed to, I could.

Great Little Scanner!

Got this to use in my semi truck to scan the BOL to my company so I can get paid. The image quality is very good and the scanning is very quick. I'm using this with Win10 with no issues. I had to get the drivers from Brothers website because my laptop doesn't have a dvd drive. The drivers installes with no issues. I use the full version of Adobe Acrobat to scan the BOLs to pdf format and it works flawlessly with Adobe. The compact size is great for being inside of my truck which has limited storage. I would recommend and would buy again.

Love this scanner - perfect for continuous feeding of pictures

I bought this to do a project. I took all of my parents old pictures from their albums that were falling apart, scanned them onto a flashdrive for both my sister and I (for safekeeping), and put them back in new albums. (You can also choose to have it sent to a folder on your desktop or something as well.) Keep in mind that I have done over 1200 pictures so far and I'm not even close to being finished. I started with pictures from the 1970's and I'm only in the mid-1990's, so I have a ways to go, but it's chugging along and is amazing! I wanted a scanner that I could continuously feed pictures up to 8x10 size and it worked perfectly. The software was easy to install and use, the scanner is a decent size and easy to store away. I could continuously feed the pictures through and stop when I needed to. I did learn my lesson to be careful with any pictures that might have tape residue on the back. I didn't realize some of mine had some tape on the back and they got stuck in the device. I was able to remove them, but feared I had ruined it, but thankfully everything was just fine. I stuck them on index cards instead and fed them through with no problem. I love this scanner and I am very happy with my purchase!

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