Brother DS-740D Duplex Compact Mobile Document Scanner

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.

Excellent little addition to my Remote Office setup! Easy to use, plug it in and go. I highly recommend purchasing the carrying case to go along with it, perfect size for the scanner & cord and fits in a laptop bag easily.

I previously owned a high-quality $400 scanner that I used while working as a contract employee. It eventually stopped working, but since retiring, my needs have changed and I no longer require such an advanced model. This scanner is small, compact, and was very easy to install—it worked right away. I had read in reviews that paper jams could be an issue, but I’ve found that happens when I push the paper in too forcefully, which causes the scanner to think there’s a jam. One thing to keep in mind is that you have to feed one page at a time, although it does support duplex scanning. Even so, you can still combine multiple pages into a single PDF document, which is very convenient.

Really good scanner, fits up to pretty much exactly 8.5x11. we digitized like 25 huge photo albums in about 3 days. You really need to use the software on their website because it gives you a continuous feed option that saves so much time. Whatever the PPM listed on this page, it's wrong. This scanner scans much faster, provided you do three things: use continuous scan setting, close the tray so it's feeds out straight, and pull the pictures away so they don't cause a "jam". My only complaint is that it will "jam" because it thinks it's blocked, and instead of allowing you to continue after pulling the picture out and continuing scans, it aborts the scan (saving the pictures most of the time) and you have to restart continuous scan.

It’s perfect for home use, easy to setup. Gets the job done.

This is a great little printer. I was looking for a portable printer that didn’t rely on thermal paper and this is what popped up in my research. Although it’s a tad heavy if I had to take it with me every day. It’s still doable. It is a bit bigger than I had hoped, it’s still substantially smaller than most other printers unless you go to a thermal printer which I didn’t want to do. I have a bigger color Brother printer, so I was already familiar with the quality of their products. And this one lives up to their high quality standards. It holds a good amount of paper, so I don’t have to keep feeding it all the time. It does use toner cartridges instead of ink cartridges, so they are bigger. But once you walk through the steps of changing a cartridge, it’s quite easy. Overall, I’m happy with this purchase. It’s a great product at a great price and the quality is solid. I recommend this little workhorse.

I decided to replace the Neat scanner that I have used to scan on the order of ten thousand receipts and documents over the last 7 years and thought the Brother DS-740D would be perfect. It is far from perfect. When it works it is fast and can do both sides in one scan. Unfortunately, it rarely works without jamming (jams on about 75% of scans, even on a perfect 8.5x11 document). I have read every support page on the issue of jamming and none of the advice helped. I have ordered the special carrier sheets that are supposed to help ($19 + $6 S&H + tax for two sheets that are only good for 500 scans each), but I am not optimistic. For anyone that claims I am doing it wrong: my Neat scanner never jammed, not even once in almost 10,000 scans and I am doing the exact same types of scan with the new Brother scanner. Even worse: it is not really jammed when it claims to be. The paper is not wrinkled up in the scanner or going in or out at an angle, or anything like that. It just stops and claims to be jammed, sometimes at the beginning, or the middle, or near the end. I tried changing settings to fix this issue, but that only seemed to help once, when I used TWAIN and long/narrow size for a long receipt. Jamming is not the only issue. It also has a very short USB cable (~ 30 inches) with one uncommon end so that you probably can’t replace it with a longer cable that you already have. The cord barely reaches to the top or back of my computer when it is right next to it. I would have to rearrange my entire desk/computer setup to place the scanner in a position that makes scanning easier. If they had included a six-foot cable, then this would not be an issue. Another issue is the terrible BR-Receipts software. It does not automatically recognize anything. My 7-year-old Neat scanner software got 90% of the information on receipts right on the first try (vendor, date, payment type, tax, total) and often got 100% of the info right on well-designed clear receipts. Keep in mind this is the original stand-alone Neat 5.x software, not the on-line supported version that you have to pay for continuously. Brother makes you teach their software by dragging boxes around the image, but the tiny boxes cannot be resized to fit and are split into two sections that cannot be moved past each other. One section contains vendor and date, the other contains payment type, tax, total. If the vendor’s name is in a lager font, then the box won’t capture it and you will have to type it yourself. If the date is at the bottom instead of the top, then you must type it in yourself. Neither section goes all the way to the top or bottom of the image, so you will have to type any info that is near the edges. Extremely disappointed. I have used Brother products across many decades. I think my first brother product was an electronic thermal printer or typewriter in the 1980s and my newest before this scanner is an all-in-one printer / flatbed scanner that we are still using.

Wow! I am impressed... as shown in my pictures, it came well protected and in perfect conditions. The right side seemed to be detachable but normal for this model. After reading the instructions probably this case design is also used for other portable models from Brother where you can change the battery. This model doesn't have a battery. I also bought the Hermitshell Travel Case and fits perfectly! Please, install the Brother software and drivers for this unit. And yes, even if you already have a laser printer from Brother. By installing the software you will be able to configure the connection settings for this scanner and once done, from the same Brother app you will be able to choose from this device or others. In my case now I can choose between this (USB) and my laser printer (wireless) for scanning purposes. I even tested the scanner connecting it to my BASEUS 7 in 1 port and worked perfectly. Is duplex and all documents scanned perfectly. Great product 👌🏼.

I have good experience with previous Brother products, and this scanner, fortunately, was no exception. Decent quality of scanned documents, good scan speed, easy setup (macOS Catalina), and intuitive operation.

Le produit est un reconditionné . Il ne fonctionne pas.

Muito fácil de instalar e muito prático de usar! 100% satisfeito!

Ya tengo más de 3 años y sigue operando muy bien

Easy to use and pretty fast scanning