Brother ImageCenter, High-Speed Desktop Document Scanner, ADS-2000e, Multiple-Page Scanning, Multiple Scan Destinations, Duplex Scanning

I use this product every day at my office. I have had five other scanners over the last six years (four stopped working - other manufacturers) and I purchased this one because I love my smaller Brother scanner, it just didn't handle the larger documents. So, I took that one home and it is still working well. I needed something that would duplex, work with different size paper, was fast and didn't jam every two minutes and I wanted something that was affordable. It is well made and not too big. I needed something that would handle scanning large documents but wouldn't take up too much space on my desk. The documents I scan are usually between 50 and 200 pages. It doesn't hold that many pages, but I can easily break the document up and still feed sections in without jamming, which is next to impossible with most scanners. I also love the fact that it deletes the pages that are blank. It The installation was extremely easy and haven't had any glitches with Windows 10. The scan quality is good and the machine is super fast. Easy to switch from photos to pdf. I was able to scan over 200 family photos in minutes with good enough quality to have reprinted. I was then able to give them (on a thumb drive) to family members and they had the front and back of each photo, so they were able to tell when they were taken and who was in them. I am happy with my purchase and if I ever needed another scanner, I would buy this one again.

Brother Scanner works well.

This is my second ADS2000 scanner. I use the first one in my home office (an ADS2000 purchased in 2013) and this ADS2000e in a small closet office in a condo. Both are reliable scanners with straight scans and few paper jams, and they're fast. I recently tried out the smaller ADS1000 in the closet office, but had too many crooked scans and paper jams. The ADS2000 is far superior. The ADS1000 is going back to Amazon. A word of advice, ditch the included software. I use ABBYY Finewriter. The user interface is light years better. I scan to searchable pdf's and can find any doc in seconds with a few keystrokes in the Windows Explorer search field. I scanned in years of tax returns, receipts, and such and eliminated a tall 4-drawer file cabinet. Now everything sits comfortably on my hard drive and is backed up on an external drive (automatically) and a secure Data Locker thumb drive. I use the thumb drive or cloud storage to access the docs from both home and the condo. And I like scanning a lot better than paper filing.

Update June 2018 I have had the scanner now for 18 months. It has worked well for me until it go un-aligned about a month ago. For some reason it scans papers cutting off the top of the paper. I tried re-installing the software, drivers to no avail. I am not sure if it is a software or hardware problem. I have tried different viewing software and the cutoff scan is the same. When I get time I will try the scanner on a different PC. Even thought the brother scanning software works it is outdated and the interface is not that great. I also had to re-install my OS and had to setup the software again. There is no way to save settings. It is very confusing. There is the modes to scan if you use the software and the modes to scan if you use the button on the device. You have to tweak and save the settings for each mode which is painful. The interface is not that intuitive so it is confusing. I still don't understand if I am setting up a setting for scanning on the desktop software or the device. The other software they provide is not that great either but works. I use PDF Xchange Editor free for viewing and editing my pdfs. I wish they had better software for scanning and organizing your pdfs. After looking around online I couldn't find any solutions. I am still trying to see if there are any benefits to the software but the scanner so far is great. I have not used anything but normal sized and unwrinkled papers. There has not been any jams. It is noisy but does not bother me. It is really fast. I did not buy it to scan photos but tried scanning one and it does not scan photos well. The colors and pixels are all messed up. I wished they sold it without the extra software and reduced the cost. I scanned a paper with OCR and one withtout it and the PDF reader I use could still find text. I think the PDF reader I use does OCR anyway so it does not appear to matter what type of PDF I scan it as.

Decided to digitize 30 years of bank statements, tax returns, etc. and recycle all that paper. It seemed like it would be a daunting task but wanted to clear all that clutter and reclaim the space. Bought this Brother High-speed scanner to speed up the process. The price is good for what you get. It is compatible with Windows 10 and 11 and according to the manual it works with Apple OS too. It fits nicely on a desk when closed up and doesn't eat up a lot of space when using it. It works well and the only time it jams is if the paper has dog eared edges or is really thin. It's easy to use and will hold about 50 pages on the infeed side though the thickness of the paper matters. The scans are a little on the light side and can be adjusted through the software, but can't get them as dark as with a flatbed scanner.

This scanner ROCKS! I have 7+ years of tax receipts for 2 corporations, a vacation rental, 2 rental homes, and some family members to scan and then shred. In a few hours I've already done 2 years worth of scanning. With multiple sizes and scanning both sides of the docs (omitting the blank pages automatically!) this has done the work of some expensive machines. Small footprint, fast, easy setup. You can save to a desktop computer or USB drive easily. Highly recommend this machine.

I have always considered Brother products top-notch. That is why I chose this refurbished scanner as a lower cost alternative to the Fujitsu 1500. I was extremely disappointed by the performance. There was always at least a 45 sec delay after pressing the Scan to PC button before the scan actually started. Many times it would not start at all and I had to troubleshoot. The machine kept losing its USB connection. Feeding was accurate - no misfeeds with a stack of 22 sheets, so that's a positive. Altogether a lack of productivity so I returned the machine.