Brother Desktop Scanner, ADS-1700W, Color Scanning, Compact, Wireless Connectivity

This is my third Brother ADS scanner. I use them constantly in conjunction with a laptop as a mobile unit. My first one - ADS1100 - had to be powered from a plug, which was not always convenient. But the 1700 is powered via the laptop, which makes it even more versatile. As I am well versed with Brother's scanning software, I'm not the best person to comment on it for beginners. I will say it connects smoothly and remains solid throughout scans that can run 150 pages.

low end scanner, but if you have a flash drive it will scan to it, which means no Wi-Fi or direct connect cables required. there are no drivers for Chromebook. good luck getting the Wi-Fi to send to your drive. Skip all that and get to with with a flash drive. scan disk 256GB with pre formatted exFAT is perfect. this is a cheep scanner. don't expect allot. it will get the job done with out breaking the bank and I'd about as low as you can go with a scanner and still get the job done.

I'm really happy with this scanner, the size is perfect! The page feeder works well and scans both sides with a single pass! You just need to make sure there is some room in front of the scanner so your documents don't fall since it doesn't have a tray at the bottom. I was able to connect it to my iPhone immediately, had a harder time connecting it to my MAC because the instructions, in my opinion, weren't clear, but once it was set up it worked like a charm.

This has worked out great

I bought this as I work from home and my current printer's scanner function is single page, single side and slow!! This product is absolutely brilliant, so quick and easy to use and set up.

Looked at several portable/compact scanners for working from home. Glad we chose this one as although quite compact, it is robust and do easy to set up. Connecting to my work laptop was a bit fiddly and had to contact IT for security reasons but that's nothing to do with the scanner function. Connecting to Mac, iPhone and iPad was easy. Really handy little scanner and can be put away easily in a cupboard or drawer. Bought the recommended storage bag which to me isn't great and it's difficult to get the power cable in neatly. Overall, plsd with the purchase

The ADS-1700W is fast and efficient. The ability to send several papers to a file on my computer with ease. I have gotten rid of so much paper, I can only smile at the order in my office. Have a sense of security knowing I won't lose important papers.

I received this product for free from Brother in exchange for my honest opinion/review of the product. I was extremely excited to receive the scanner and could not wait to set it up. Downloading the software was relatively easy. It took some time to connect to my wifi, but that was eventually done. The scanner comes with settings which were a little confusing. The main issue I had was scanning multiple pages. If I tried to scan a three page document, it saved on my computer as three separate documents instead of one document with three pages. I contacted customer support through their chat and they advised me to try download the software again and they send more detailed instructions. This did not help. I then called their help desk and I was advised to change the document from a JPEG to a PDF. This worked and the scanner worked like a charm. I love how quickly it scans a documents and that it scanned all pages in order. The largest document that I scanned was 24 pages. I don`t like that it doesn`t have a tray to catch the pages once they pass through the machine and also that the pages do not scan straight. The size of the scanner is great as it does not take up much room. [This review was collected as part of a promotion.]

this appears to be the upgrade to the ads-1500w. It has faster speeds and network capability but it looses some of the features of the ads-1500w which I think is a step backwards. The ads-1500w had a menu for the cloud services to scan directly to dropbox. The ads-1700w does not have the same icon on the menu and you MUST attach the scanner via usb in order to use the web cloud features. Why? Does't this subtract from the portability of being able to plug it in to a wall socket and go, and not use a PC? I have also found that the ads-1700w will not scan to my PR4100 NAS shared folder. I'm working with brother support but cannot get it to work. It will scan wirelessly to a PC, even the usb memory stick on the NAS, but not the NAS shared folder. The loss of direct scan to dropbox without having to hook up a PC and the NAS san to feature might be a deal killer unless they can get this fixed. So far, I only see the ads-1700w better than the ADS-1500w in the realm of speed. Otherwise it lost some features.

This was an absolutely fantastic scanner. I used it properly and regularly in my office. Then one day, after about a year and a half, it shut down and wouldn't turn on at all anymore. I reached out to Brother for help and they told me to buy a new one.