Brother DS-740D Duplex Compact Mobile Document Scanner

This was easy to install on my computer, compact and easy to use! Another Great Buy!

Ha sido una excelente compra. El tamaño es perfecto puedes guardarlo fácilmente. Escanea rapidísimo y muy fácil de instalar en tu laptop. Me ha sido muy útil. Escanea super bien credenciales. Volvería a comprar otro producto marca brother.

I really liked this scanner but I returned it to get the 940 . I needed the micro SD card feature that the 940 has because I work for the government and they do not allow hooking up hardware and software to their network. The advertisement on other websites made it seem like this one had the SD card feature but when it arrived I found out that the 740 did not have the card feature. This scanner is very portable and easy to use. It scans really fast and the scans are clear. It cannot scan from a book, the item you are scanning has to pass through the scanner, not unless you rip out the page from a book. This scanner is well worth the money but do not forget to buy a hard case to protect your scanner.

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 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 8.5×11 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.