BROTHER DS640 Document Scanner, White
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Price: £99.97
Brand: Brother
08/12/2020
Description: Wherever you are, scan documents in high quality with the Brother DS640 Document Scanner. Lightweight and portable, the scanner will easily fit inside your briefcase or laptop bag. And to connect, just plug it in to the USB 3.0 port on your laptop. With an optical resolution of up to 600 dpi and 1200 x 1200 dpi interpolated resolution, you'll be able to scan contracts or letters without missing any detail. Got a lot of reports to scan? Scanning at 15 pages per minute, it won't take long to digitise documents. Brother BROTHER DS640 Document Scanner, White - shop the best deal online on appliances4.me
Category: Appliances and accessories
Merchant: Currys PC World
Product ID: 10211977
Delivery time: 1 to 3 days
Delivery cost: 5
EAN: 4977766800495
Specifications: [ { groupLabel: OVERVIEW, specifications: [ { label: Maximum scan size: A4 ● Optical resolution: 600 x 600 dpi ● Scanning element: CMOS single contact image sensor ● Type: Document scanner ● Interface: USB 3.0 } ] }, { groupLabel: FEATURES, specifications: [ { label: Light source: LED array ● Colour depth: - 48-bit inputn- 24-bit output ● Scan speed: 15 ppm ● USB-bus powered: Yes ● Transparency scanning ● Other features. GENERAL ● Colour: White ● Box contents: - Brother DS640 Document Scannern- USB cablen- Quick setup guide ● Software included: - iPS (Windows & Mac)n- Remote setup (Windows & Mac)n- NewSoft Presto! (Windows & Mac)n- Bizcard 6 (Windows)n- Bizcard 7 (Mac)n- Nuance Paperport SE (Windows)n- Kofax Power PDF Standard v3 (Windows) ● Dimensions: 36.8 x 301 x 50.6 mm (H x W x D) ● Manufacturer's guarantee: 1 year ● System requirements: - Windows 7 or latern- macOS 10.12 or latern- Linux ● Weight: 466 g
Author: cake_or_death
Rating: 5
Review: I confess to being sceptical, having read a few reviews of this, but overall I've been impressed. The unit is highly portable. As another reviewer mentioned, there's no case (not even a cloth one) to protect it, which might be a detractor given its intended portability. I bought this as a cheap scanner to digitise a number of reports more quickly than using my existing (old) flatbed. Windows 11 recognised the device immediately, but I downloaded the software bundle from the Brother website in order to use the main scanning utility and update the firmware, the latter of which was quick and simple. I didn't install either the PaperPort software or Kofax Power PDF standard, the latter of which is only a free trial. Changing the scanning settings is really easy in the iPrint&Scan software, and creating a single document from multiple pages is straightforward having ticked the Continuous Scan option in the settings under Feed Control. Using this, it's a simple case of pushing the next page into the scanner after the last and the unit automatically pulls it in. Once you're done, hit Finish and the PDF save options appear. I scanned a 50 page (single sided) report, generating a single searchable PDF, in about 5 minutes. This is much quicker than the hour or so I'd anticipate it would take to do the same on my flatbed scanner. The quality of the document at 300x300 dpi was good; plenty sufficient for a document. Invariably a flatbed scanner (and one more modern than mine) would produce higher resolution images, which is possibly an advantage for scanning photos, but for quick and decent scans of documents and images this is perfect. I only have two "niggles" with this product: a) the paper guide slider moves very easily, which can make the paper feed in slightly crooked, although the de-skew function is good here, and with a little practice it didn't prove and issue. I used a small piece of blu tack just to hold it in place, which worked fine. b) the PDF creation software doesn't have a great compression algorithm. The 50 page PDF I created was 20mb. I ran it through ABBYY PDF editor and even on high quality it shrunk it down to around 4mb. Overall, I would recommend this product if you want a decent portable scanner that'll make digitising documents quick and easy. If you want high resolution scans of photos, you're going to want a flatbed.
Author: Silvia B
Rating: 3
Review: Of course what you really need for a good job is a flatbed scanner. If you need portability, this machine is better than some alternatives of similar price, in that at least it doesn't produce washed out streaks and similar blatant problems on the scanned images. Pros: - Decent, user-friendly software with occasional glitches (which might be due to Windows 11, though) - Sturdy construction Cons: - Terrible scanning quality - tweaking the settings doesn't help, it's the sensor that's poor quality. Good for an on-the-spot-in-a-hurry scan, but if you have the option, take your document home and use a flatbed machine. - Awful document alignment: no matter how carefully you feed the sheet in, it will always be skewed. Verdict: buy only if you desperately need portability (as I do at the moment). Beg, borrow or steal a flatbed scanner for a decent job. (I have one of those too.)
