Brother DS-740D Scanner

The scanner you’re supposed to be able to put in several sheets of paper, but I find you can only put in one piece of paper or it tells you got a paper jam and you have to pull the plug. Wait a few minutes plug it back in to continue scanning any documents.

I have a lot of two sided documents that require scanning. I've been using a scanner that is non-duplex, requiring that I remove the document, turn it over, and scan again. Since purchasing this little scanner, my workload has decreased by 50%, making the process much faster—one of the best peripherals that I've purchased. Also, love that it's MAC compatible.

The DS-740D is a good, small document scanner. We use it bi-weekly to process whatever has accumulated — the occasional health insurance documents (explanation of benefits) and assortment of signed contracts (ex: landscaping). The scanner comes with a USB-A cable. But the end that plugs into the scanner uses a standard, but very rare USB connection. I wish they had used a more common connector. I use a USB-C based iPad as my daily computing device. I wish this scanner was directly compatible with iPad. I’m not a fan of WiFi models, and would love the convenience of connecting it directly to my iPad. Instead I wait and connect it to a household shared Mac mini when I need to scan things. The scanning software is what I expect from a printer/scanner company. (the bar is very low) It’s not pretty. It’s not intuitive. It works.

When I connected the scanner the iPrint&scan app recognised it was available but when I tried to scan the app then said the scanner wasn't connected. So I used the Brother utility to deinstall the drivers and downloaded the the driver instal package from the Brother web site. However the instal process got about 25% of the way through and then just hanged. The only thing I could do was to use the msoft task manager to cancel it. Tried restarting the laptop several times but the same thing kept happening. Went to the Brother support page and was waiting an hour to talk to a live agent when I gave up. Scanner therefore currently unusable. Very disappointed.

Been looking for something like this for a long time. After a couple of months of use the only thing on my wish list for this is if it would let you scan longer documents like car loan documents or loan documents. I could not find a setting to customize for much longer document sizes.