Brother ADS-4700W Professional Desktop Scanner with Fast Scan Speeds, Duplex, Wireless, and Large Touchscreen, White

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.

Bought the ADS 2800W after a lengthy research. I needed a reasonably fast scanner that can be moved around and plugged into my network as a standalone device to digitize documents in file cabinets at different locations. It had to be reasonably fast and feed reliably multiple paper sources and formats, including receipts and biz card. Needed the scanner to upload to a folder on a Qnap NAS and have OCR automatically performed by a static Windows 10 workstation. The printer had to have TWAIN/WIA/ISIS drivers to run 3-party apps so that I am not at the mercy of a single vendor.The final hardware-Software pairing was with Nuance Power PDF Advanced 3, which had the automatic OCR feature at a reasonable price. ABBYY Fine Reader Corporate does the same but costs 2-4 times more (depends on where you buy it), with relatively similar OCR accuracy. Since all OCR conversion to Searchable PDF is in the background by Power PDF, conversion speed was a non-issue especially on a i9-9900K CPU.Idea is to do bulk scanning to different customized profiles so that I can set different file prefixes for different categories of documents (receipts, statements, invoices, manuals etc). Customization/configurations was done via web browser, very straight forward but took a while to find the default password, which is "initpass". The profile customization is very flexible, only thing missing is the ability to un-select the Multifeed Detection in the profile, which you may want for odd-ball paper or 2-1 scan using the plastic sleeve.Scanning via the touch screen to Network into image PDF, the average speed is around 41-42ppm (82-84 ipm) @ 300 dpi color duplex medium file size. No lag between mix of double sided printed documents and single sided sheets. Time between pressing START and the roller feeding is about 1 sec, transmission at end of scan to NAS seems to be unnoticeable on a wired network as it is roughly done by the time I pull the papers from the out tray.The Apps that came with the scanner I ended up uninstalling. Its OK for general use, just not for my specific application. Have to say Paperport's UI can benefit from some updating, looks really dated.Printer came with K version firmware, updating to N version was simple.Not much YouTube reviews on this scanner and spec is conflicting, with many places still listing it as 30ppm instead of 40ppm.Overall, couldn't be happier and relieved by my choice to go with ADS 2800W. Very well made and great performance to my surprise, I was really hesitant to buy this unit (thus the lengthy research) as the price to feature+performance was a bit too good to be true, now I am a convert to Brother products. Works great for my specific needs although it was a hair over my budget. The best feature loaded and commercial grade performance scanner for the price.Great job by the scanner design team @ Brother!