Brother Mobile Color Page Scanner, DS-620, Fast Scanning Speeds, Compact and Lightweight, Compatible with BR-Receipts, Black

Highly recommended and far cheaper than other scanners out there. Great for going paperless and scanning photos.Updated Review after One Month of Usage:HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS PRODUCT! We cannot say that enough. For anyone looking to scan documents, children's artwork, photos and even ID's and passports then this Brother Printer Document Scanner is for you!We have scanned our entire four drawer file cabinet and our entire photo album all onto Micro SD cards all with the help and thanks to this little beautiful machine. And it was very easy to operate, set up, scan and so forth. You can choose to scan as a JPEG or PDF or a continuing PDF which is a really handy option. And the quality comes out better than the object you scanned in. As the pixel ratings can be set to your liking.We highly recommend this product to anyone looking to scan documents, photos or the like for personal or business. We have easily scanned over 1000 items and have had no glitches or problems with this product. It is built like a Brother, as our Brother laser printer is still running strong and she's over 10 years old now. Again, if you are shopping for small portable scanners look no where else. We compared them all before we bought and are beyond pleased we picked this Brother printer document scanner.We were not paid nor discounted in any way, shape or form for giving our honest opinion here of this product as a review to assist others. We believe, as a family, it is important to give an honest and accurate review to assist others so they can make good purchasing decisions that can benefit them and their family. And not be lead to cheap, unwanted purchases that are scripted by advertisers to buy their products. We are a family that believes in a minimalist lifestyle while trying to be green as much as possible in all departments of our life. As we care to leave something, anything, of this planet to our grandchildren so they may enjoy it as we have.

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.

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.