Brother DS-740D Duplex Compact Mobile Document Scanner

2114 reviews for Brother DS-740D Duplex Compact Mobile Document Scanner

1. Rated 5 out of 5

   Gustavo Trivellato Pereira – August 5, 2023

   O produto é ótimo atendeu minhas expectativas, fácil de instalar. O produto chegou bem embalado no prazo combinado recomendo !

2. Rated 5 out of 5

   Darrell D. – August 6, 2023

   This is a nice little duplex scanner. I bought the factory refurbished model, and for a quick minute I thought that might have been a mistake. After every page, the scanner took 20+ seconds to be ready again. I’m using Linux (Fedora), so I thought maybe it was a driver problem. Or maybe I got a dud unit. I watched the udev monitor and realized the scanner seemed to be power-cycling after each page. Odd.

   Turns out, it was the port on my laptop. I plugged it into a different USB port ON THE SAME LAPTOP and the scanner works great! No long delay between scanning subsequent pages. No strange udev messages.

   Linux folks, Brother has Linux drives on their product support website (*.deb and *.rpm). Install is simple. I used Gnome’s “Document Scanner” at first as the scanning front end. You have to select “All Pages From Feeder” (not “Single Page”) in order for the two-sided (duplex) functionality of the 740D to work. You MUST ALSO select “Both” from the preferences dialogue.

   I eventually switched to “gscan2pdf”, which is more flexible in terms of scan post-processing. In the “Scan” dialogue on the “Scan Options” tab, the “Scan Source” option allows you to perform two-sided (duplex) scanning. Select the option ending with “left aligned” for single-sided and “left aligned – duplex” for two-sided.

3. Rated 4 out of 5

   Pierre Briand – August 11, 2023

   Il faut télécharger les drivers sinon ça ne fonctionne pas

4. Rated 3 out of 5

   Mitchell H. – August 12, 2023

   A good SINGLE DOCUMENT portable scanner, or receipt scanner. If you ever scan multi-page documents (even just 2-pages), or plan to keep this at your desk, then you will want another model. We use this for scanning when traveling, and really miss not going for the wireless model. It’s not any better than a phone app scanner for receipts or single-sided single document scanning. Having this at my desk within arms reach, I still prefer to walk up front to the other scanners in the office for anything other than entering receipts.

   We love our Scan Snap duplex scanners for 2 or more page scans, and have three for our office of 4 people if that’s any indication of how happy we are with them. This is fine, just outdated. It’s a very niche use case (portable receipt scanning) and there are wireless scanners which make more sense for portability.

   This was still a good purchase for us as a (refurbished – aka cheap) scanner for one person to enter receipts on a daily basis, and not take up desk space when not in use.

5. Rated 5 out of 5

   Amazon Customer – September 14, 2023

   This is an easy set up and easy to use. I am glad I have a fast easy way to scan in Documents. 10 out of 10 recommendation!

6. Rated 5 out of 5

   Happy customer – September 26, 2023

   Scans quickly, 2 sided and color. Comes with great ocr and pdf software. Connected easily to hp laptop, but wouldn’t connect to my Samsung Galaxy laptop.

7. Rated 5 out of 5

   ALEJANDRO LOB – September 26, 2023

   Buena herramiento

8. Rated 5 out of 5

   ADRIANA – October 4, 2023

   El escáner es de mucha utilidad, se instala muy fácil, es muy práctico y se ahorra espacio en tu escritorio.

9. Rated 5 out of 5

   Welton Brito dos Santos – October 6, 2023

   muito bom produto

10. Rated 5 out of 5

    Robert TOnkel – October 15, 2023

    awesome

11. Rated 5 out of 5

    Christina F. – October 22, 2023

    This scanner is great for travel. It quickly scans 2 sides at once. Scans are clear.

12. Rated 4 out of 5

    Addison Mangum – October 23, 2023

    The scanner itself works very well, and I really love the double-sided scanning and color features. Sometimes when feeding it documents, it misaligns and scans things at an angle, which is annoying, and if there’s a paper jam, you have to turn it off and reset the app to get it to work again. I kind of wish there was a tray to feed documents, but overall, it’s pretty easy to use. I spent nearly 8 or 9 hours straight using it, and it warmed up, but never overheated, and I managed to scan a couple thousand pages worth of documents.

13. Rated 4 out of 5

    Stephen – October 25, 2023

    I purchased this scanner to use on my desk at work. I do not have a lot of space on my desk so I needed a smaller unit. This worked perfect! I have it sitting in front of one of my monitors, between my keyboard and monitor. While there are a couple quirks with this, I relly like it. Here are some pros and cons of the unit:

    Pros:
    – Compact: It’s small enough to fit on a smaller desk or throw into a laptop bag if you travel
    – Quick: It is pretty quick when scanning. A full page takes a few seconds to process
    – Software: The software is pretty easy to use and allows you to save as various types of documents. I usually scan as PDF. It also has an option to scan multiple documents to the same file and front and back.
    – Includes a copy of PDF editing software, with the codes on the bottom of the unit
    – It uses a single USB 3.0 cable to connect and power the unit, so no separate power cable is needed. That’s really big for me. The fewer cables the better.
    – Scanner has a “paper grabber” (not sure what to call it) that pulls the paper in slightly when you first stick it in. That’s a nice way to know when your paper is ready to scan.

    Cons:
    – Jams: I have had a few instances where I stuck paper in too quick and it showed a jam. The only way to clear the jam was to unplug the unit and plug it back in. Not a deal breaker, but it caught me off guard the first couple times it happened. Just be a little gentle when putting paper into the scanner.
    – Slider for paper size is way too easy to move. I’ve stopped using it because of how easy it slides. It needs a way to lock it in place or notches to give it some slots to hold it in place. As it is now, bumping it with paper moves it.
    – Cover is pretty hard to open. I was afraid I was going to break it the first couple times I tried to open it. The first time opening it, I thought maybe it wasn’t made to open. After a few very firm pulls, it finally popped open.

    Overall, I’m very happy with my purchase. It saves me from having to walk to another part of the building to use the community printer/scanner/copier and wait for the email to come through. It doesn’t take up much space, and it is quick. I’d highly recommend this to anyone looking for a portable or small scanner.