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In retrospect, I would likely have been better off purchasing a standard wireless printer and keyboard combination, but I wanted a nimble scanner to digitize my pay stubs. This scanner does a better job than many similar products, but it certainly takes some work! While I would not actively recommend it to anyone, I certainly wouldn't recommend against it-- so long as you know what you're looking for.PROS+ Light, sleek design. The included pouch is pretty minimal (and it doesn't even have anywhere to store the included cable), but you can slip it into a backpack with minimal fuss. That being the whole reason you'd buy a portable scanner, I'd say this has it down in aces.+ Relatively simple operation. It's a push button scanner, and when connected to Windows 7 (x64), it launched the Fax & Scan application with minimal fuss. It'll also accept sending the scan command from the computer itself.+ High quality scans. The images you get are easy to read and perfect for paystubs. You can use color, but since I'm more interested in content I never really bothered with the color mode.+ Quick operation. Major caveat; you definitely will need some practice (see CONS below). Once you've got the hang of it though, you can scan at a pretty good clip.CONS- Difficult to use with a Mac. This scanner is TWAIN compatible, but it really doesn't play very nice with OS X 10.7 Lion or OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion. Image capture often does not want to recognize this device, so be aware that it can be a real hassle to use. (I have a background in IT service, so I'm very familiar with peripheral trouble; this isn't necessarily hard to use, but it's much more annoying than it's worth).- Not plug-and-play compatible with Windows 7. This personally drove me a little bit nuts, because I hate having to use manufacturer disks if I can at all avoid it. In this case, however, you do want to install your drivers from Brother's site or the disk before scanning. It will not work otherwise!- It's somewhat difficult to scan documents correctly. You need to line the paper flush against the scanner's right side and press forward. If you do this correctly, you will hear a motor whirring and feel the paper feed pulling your sheet in by about a tenth of an inch. If you don't feel this, you will have to keep playing with it until you hear the motor. Otherwise, the scanner will not pull your document after you press the scan button.- There's no paper guide. This was the biggest failing of the product in my eyes, and one I hope to remedy with a DIY fix later. The lack of a paper guard makes it very difficult to align the document you're scanning and preventing it from skewing during the scan.- The weight of the included cable will cause the scanner to tip over if you're not careful, which will definitely ruin a scan. Use this on a wide flat surface! This also helps because scanned documents exit out the back on a flat angle, so anything behind the scanner will cause the sheets to jam.- Even fully aligned against the scanner, you're going to get annoying black bars along the side of the documents you scan. This is probably my biggest gripe, because this scanner does not work that well with a Mac, yet Image Capture is much, much more useful than Windows Fax & Scan.On the whole, this is a good scanner, but know exactly what you'll be using it for before you buy!

The scanner was easy to install and seems to work well enough. I use it heavily for all of my receipts and recently went through my file cabinet and scanned most of my documents into digital form.It allows you to scan to PDF, JPEG, or TIFF and to set the varying qualities for each. I found this to be convenient. I especially like the way you can scan multiple pages to a single PDF. This can be done simply by feeding pages one after another (the next page starts scanning automatically, even though a dialog pops up asking you if you want to continue). I find the scanning speed to be mostly adequate. However, there are a host of annoyances with this product that I'd like to point out. While I will be listing a decent amount of these negatives, I should point out that, even when all combined, I still find this device to be useful.- The DS Mobile 600 software seems a little flaky in that every dozen or two dozen scans, it will just hang and not produce the document after scanning. I have to exit the application and then restart it and rescan my document. This is by far my biggest gripe and it does result in curse words when it happens two or three times in a row.- You are limited to scanning documents no larger than legal sized paper (8.5"x14.0"). About 95% of the time this is fine and no issue. However, it gets to be a problem when I'm trying to scan long receipts (such as those from long grocery shopping trips). In order to scan them in, I've found that the easiest thing to do is cut them in half and scan them each in separately. This is frustrating.- It's a little manually intensive when scanning receipts and other documents that aren't the full width of the scanner or have folds or creases in them. The scanner does not handle those well and documents often end up feeding unevenly through the scanner or stop scanning early. A little gentle coercion can overcome this.- The scanner seems to get dirty easily, which results in vertical streaks on my scans. While I've admittedly scanned well over 1000 documents at this point, I've also had to use the cleaning sheet with alcohol at least 4 times since December. The cleaner sheet needs to have alcohol on it and the cleaning routine needs to be run a half a dozen times or more each time to clean it off. Perhaps there's some gunk on my documents, so I'm willing to accept that I may be at least partially blame to this one, but if there is, it's very slight.- The USB cord seems to disconnect very easily. Sometimes, just the slightest shift of the device causes it to lose connectivity.

Purchased this scanner based upon all the rave reviews from others, but there's not much comment on the Mac side. The retail box only says it works for Windows, but don't stress Mac zealots. This scanner works on Mac OSX 10.3 to 10.8. I paid $140 and some change and got the scanner within a week. I have a weigh scale that's super accurate, so I can tell you that the scanner is fairly light for travel purposes. Scanner weight is 10.8 ozs and total weight with USB cord is a svelte 13.8 ozs.Installation was a bitch, because there's no written documentation. Companies are putting the instructions on the discs or online to save on paper costs now a days. I'll walk you through the install on the Mac side in case you don't feel like searching for the exact document online or reading all that bloat ware on the disc. First, DO NOT plug the thing into your laptop when you get it, because your Mac won't recognize it without the software driver. Second, DO NOT bother with installing the included disc as the software driver for the Mac is outdated. Third, go on line and copy and paste this address:[..]For some reason, Amazon deletes my link addresses. So, if you don't see the link address above- Go to Google and type in Brother DSmobile 600 Mac drivers in the search field and press enter. You should select the top or second selection when Google returns the results. The latest software driver for Mountain Lion is 1.3.8 Download the DMG file onto your desktop and then double left click to open the DMG folder. Then follow the instructions and they will prompt you to restart the computer after everything is installed. Now click on finder at the bottom of the screen and type "Image Capture" in the search field. Left click on the camera icon that says "image capture" and drag it down to your dock.Now you can start the calibration scanning: Plug the USB cord into the scanner and into your laptop. Click on Finder, Applications folder, Utilities folder, and scroll down and double left click on DS 600 Mobile Calibrator to open it. Then use 1 of the Calibration Direction papers and make sure you fully insert it into the scanner. You will have to play with the paper and insert it in the middle, since there are no paper guides. The document won't take if you insert it all the way to the left or right edge or don't push it in far enough. Now click on calibrate and let the scanner do it's thing. A message box will say it's done calibrating when you do it correctly.Open the Image Capture program that you placed down by the dock. For regular black & white docs you select: Document Feeder, Text, 1 bit, 600 dpi so the text can be read easier, US letter, Scan to Folder is where you want the file to be saved, Name the scan whatever you like, select PDF for ease of compatibility when sending docs via e-mail, automatic task is selected for preview, and none for image correction since your scanning text. Now insert your paper and click scan. The black button on the right of the scanner only works for PC's, so don't bother pushing it or you will look stupid when nothing happens.If your scanning receipts in PDF and don't like the black border wasting all your ink when you print. Here's what you do after the document is saved in PDF. Go to where the document is on your computer and open it using the Mac app "Preview". 1) Choose Tools > Select Tool. 2) A + symbol will replace the black arrow and you will left click and drag the portion of the page you want to keep. 3)Choose Tools > Inspector, and click "Crop" to crop just that page 4)To crop every page in the document to the selection, click Crop All Pages. 5) You can also select rotate page in case you scanned the page upside down 6) Now save the document you just cropped by pressing command S or when you close the document the computer will ask if you want to save your changes.If you want to group multiple pages together into one document. Here's what you do- Open up the document you want using the Mac app "Preview," left click "view" at the top header, then make sure side bar is checked for "show sidebar". Now drag the other PDF docs you want into the sidebar to group them with your first doc. Now just save the document and Shazaaaam!!! All your docs are grouped into one document. Now aren't you glad I walked you through this set up?2011 Update: I have since sold this scanner and purchased a Fujitsu Scansnap S1100. The Fujitsu is slightly more than the Brother, but well worth it, since it's more Mac friendly and the button on the Fujitsu actually does something when you press it.

There are a few things I like about this scanner: It can save multiple pages into a single document. I can select from some presets documents sizes, and color/gray-scale/b&w before I scan. It scans up to legal size paper. It will also allow me to set the size of paper to be scanned manually. I can scan gas station and meal receipts of any size.A few things I do not like: No matter how hard I try to feed the papers in straight, it very often grabs one side of the paper first, and feeds uneven. The paper bumps into the other end of the feed slot and corrects, but the image shows the top of the document crooked,and the rest is even. Sometimes the paper doesn't catch the feeder, and the document saves as a black image. Sometimes the paper hesitates and than catches, which causes the document to save with a huge black border at top, and cuts the last several inches from the bottom of the page. The paper has to be feed very carefully while holding both sides of the paper using light force to get it to feed. I am still trying to get this down. It's no big deal for me, because the scanned images are for my use only. If it was something that I had to submit to others, that might be a problem.

I bought this to scan expense receipts and other assorted information needed by my company. Since I am on the road constantly, I needed something like this instead of constantly looking for scanners and digital senders everywhere I go. PAY ATTENTION to the instructions and load the software BEFORE you plug this into your computer. Make sure even little receipts are snuggly against the right side of the in-feed, and don’t stuff them in past the stop. The little feed rollers work as designed and will grab your items and feed them through. If you try and feed little receipts into the middle of the in-feed, they will turn and not go through straight and your image will be skewed, but that’s not the machine’s fault. I was hoping for a carrying “case” to protect this a little better (it is getting stuffed into a back pack) but what you get is a carrying “bag” with a draw string closure. Better than nothing I suppose. I’m waiting for the Afghanistan moon dust to kill it like it does every other piece of IT you bring out here, but this is holding up well under some pretty harsh conditions. Highly recommend.

I have mostly good things to say about this unit...The one issue I wish to inform everyone of is the constant issue of having to rescan because the document was not inserted perfectly straight into the feeder. (there is no alignment tool or otherwise consistently accurate way to insert document straight) This may not be an issue to some, but I like my scans to be decent enough to be reprinted and used as originals and with a solid black space on either side where the scanned document was absent (offset to either side) during the scan, that screams copy.Since an add on clip is not likely to be made for this no longer new model, I tried something simple of my own design:- I used 3 small strips of dark tape on a piece of lite paper, in order to have a reference for consistently straight scans.1) First, I added two strips of tape to show where to place 2 corners (one on each end). This kept the scanner in the same position every use.(This only works if you will be using the scanner at home in the same location OR if you choose to add this tape outline to a piece of paper and roll it up to take with you wherever the scanner goes!)2) THEN, I used the last piece of tape to show where you must align each documents right side- place it about 6" out in front of the scanner and thats about it... Like I said, simple!!! (but effective)(Obviously, You must calibrate this yourself before placing the tape permanently.)It has worked pretty well for me, but I don't travel with it, so ???* Besides that issue - All is well:Quality of scans are great and very adjustable in case your more concerned with scan time, in which Black n White, lower Qaulity (200-300 dpi) scans are best, versus color, high quality (400-600 dpi) scans, ideal for photo's even...Hope this helps someone!!! Good day to all,Josh D

I had read the other reviews and wasn't very concerned, however I received the product downloaded the software and started to scan my receipts only to find out it is faulty. First the scanner would not run its initial setup but the program stated it was ok to use, so I barreled on like trooper. Then it was scanning the first inch of each paper so I just scooted it over until I realized I have full size sheets that will need to be scanned as well. So alas I called customer service. They were rude and stated that I wasn't be cooperative because I wasn't sure of the business address. She then stated she would email me a solution. Umm Yeah I got the emailed solution which stated - make sure there is no debris in the scanner, try again and if that doesn't work call customer service. No Thanks!!In all this I am very happy that Amazon has an easy return policy. Thank you amazon!! I'll be getting another Neat Receipts scanner a bit pricier but worth every penny.

For a low cost scanner this is a good buy. I have been using the DSmoble600 for several years. I travel a lot and take it on the road with me, and like it well enough to buy a second one to leave at home. The size is perfect and it is light weight. It produces a good enough quality image for most purposes at 300dpi which I find to be a good blend of quality & speed. You can go up to 600dpi and select greyscale or color, but it will get slower. If you do a lot of scanning or need very high quality, you may want something faster, but for me it suits my puropse. CONS: You need to be diligent about feeding the paper if you want the image to look good, and the placement of the USB outlet is on the back behing the button and the cable can be in the way of your media. A better place would have been on the side, or better yet wireless.

This thing is the biggest piece of crap I have ever bought from Amazon, and I have bought quite a bit.If you are considering this $150-dollar migraine, spare yourself the time, money and trouble and just buy the iPhone App Genius Scan. Seriously. I am lucky I was able to stave off the rage this thing instilled in me long enough to NOT smash it into a million pieces on the floor. After (seriously) deep breathing techniques to quell my rage, I figured I would get my money back, write a scathing and well-deserved review, and take a nap.If I were rich, I would skeet shoot this thing out of the sky. I feel as though I have just met my $150-dollar mortal enemy. This thing couldn't even calibrate itself with its own calibration paper.The saddest part is that I was extremely happy with Genius Scan from the get-go, but as a special education teacher with thousands of pages of text to scan, I thought this thing might have helped me make the MOST MISERABLE parts of my career/life (endless paperwork) a little less miserable. Well, thanks to Brother, I now know that is too much to ask for, so I will be returning to my trusty iPhone.Seriously, if you are even considering this hunk of $#!+, please consider buying yourself an iPod touch (if you don't already have one) with the money you have almost spent and downloading the $5 app Genius Scan. At least the iPod touch is mega-portable and can be used for other things, too.Eff this scanner and eff Brother for creating such an irritating piece of machinery. I will never buy a Brother product again, as this experience was the second most miserable in my life - second only (I assume) to my circumcision as a newborn. Luckily I don't remember the later, but the former puts that experience into perspective for me as an almost-30-year-old man. There's a marketing slogan for you, Brother: "Our products are still not as bad as penile mutilation!"I hope the engineer who designed this thing falls down the stairs tomorrow (but, proportionally, is only hurt as much as I was inconvenienced and outraged). Only then, would it feel like there was some justice in this cruel universe.

I live in New York City. I scan documents every few weeks as needed. I wanted something tiny I could keep in my computer supply box and take out on occasion to scan whatever... this fits the bill perfectly.It is tiny. It is entirely USB powered. It runs with no problem on both a OSX and Windows.I use Adobe Acrobat Pro as my scanning software and after installing the DS-600 drivers and loading up Acrobat, I find pages scan at 300DPI B&W with (very good) OCR at about 20-30 seconds a page. Insert a sheet, click scan, and go. Given the ease of use and setup (and how quickly I can just plug it in when I need to), it doesn't get better.

I sold my Neat scanner on eBay and bought this product because the Neat, although a good product, was way more that I needed, way too complicated to use. I wanted something that would scan and save to jpg or PDF, period, nothing more. Since I bought this I am scanning everything, saving everything for future reference and getting rid of my paper mess. The only negative is you need to be very careful when feeding the paper into the device or else it will pull off to the side and screw up the scan, you just need repeat the process, which isn't a problem. Also register receipts are a problem, hard to start.

This will be a bit of a lengthy review, as I will describe how I personally use the scanner in my digital office. I will also address some complaints other reviewers mentioned and some easy tips to address them.Some reviewers mentioned the scanner doesn't always grab their documents. To fix this, just make sure you align the document properly along the right-hand side of the scanner. The scanner will not grab receipts that are inserted aligned to the left, or even the middle of the scanner. But if you insert them along the right-hand guide, the scanner will grab them every time.Another reviewer mentioned that their files are frequently skewed a bit. I found a great solution to this as well. If you go into Windows control panel and open the scanner settings, you can adjust how long it waits before prefeeding. I doubled the time (from about 1 sec to about 2 sec), and now I have plenty of time to properly line up my document before it prefeeds. Another handy thing you can adjust here is the prefeed distance. I changed it to the smallest settings, because the default setting was sometimes cutting off text on pages that text at the very top of the page with no margin.How I use the scanner for my digital office:1. Optional: Set up free Dropbox account. This is a good place to store your documents because it's seemlessly backed-up to the cloud.2. In control panel, edit the scanner settings and change the prefeed delay and distance to your preferred settings. I increased the delay and decreased the prefeed distance.3. Set default scan type to .jpg (much better quality scans the PDF setting). Set default folder to "Scanned Documents" under My Documents. I like to use resolution of 200dpi. It results in pretty small file sizes, that can be reprinted nicely. DS Mobile automatically deskews, and detects end of page. Set page size to 14" - that way you can scan anything up to that length.4. When DS Mobile is opened change settings to Open Program after scanning. Using the program called wfs.exe. This is the Windows 7 Scanner software. It works much better in my opinion than the included Pagemaster software or whatever. Using the Windows Scanner software, it's easy to rename and sort your files into subfolders. Use vendor names for your subfolders. To name the actual scans, I always do "2011-07-20 Gas Bill" or something like that. That sorts them by date nicely which makes it easy to find files later.5. Optional: Adobe Acrobat Professional is a good program to use to later arrange your files into searchable pdfs. I don't normally need this feature so I usually skip it.I put this together briefly, so feel free to ask if you have any other questions, or good tips you discovered.-Pinny

Simple to install (Windows 7) with fresh drivers and software from Brothers' site (didn't even bother with the DVD).The DSMobileScanII software is slick. You can configure output formats to PDF, JPG, etc., and have it auto-crop each scanned document. For example, I can have a letter and a 2" x2" receipt in the same PDF but they have different page sizes -- space saving!Paper loading sometimes requires precision to be taken up correctly by the rollers, but overall, I definitely would buy this again!

I wanted a small scanner, but one that would feed the picture/paper through. I am sure I would have everything crooked with the wanding-type. I have scanned a lot of different items with no problems. Nice little carrying/protective case. I have had two flat bed scanners which were fine and each lasted years and are still working. I gave them away because I just have no space to keep the large ones set up. This fits my purposes. Scans come out very clear and not crooked!

I just ordered and received one of these scanners. Bottom line is this: The instruction manual and drivers that ship with the scanner are out of date. The directions will tell you to use OS X's Image Capture program to calibrate the scanner. (If you don't calibrate it after installing the software your scans will fail. The error message is "Run TWAIN software." However, Apple has removed the calibration capability from Image Capture for some unknown reason and even Adobe Photoshop won't do the job.You need to download an updated version of the driver, which includes the calibration built in. I got it here: [...]See this thread for more information: [...](If Amazon removes these links, contact Brother for the updated version of the Snow Leopard drivers.)After just a couple of scans I can tell I'll use the heck out of this. It does exactly what I need: scans an 8.5" x 11" sheet of paper into a PDF file without a lot of fiddly fooling with DPI settings, prescans and whatnot. (Edited to add: Actually you CAN change DPI settings, doc formats and such with ease, as I've noted in Comments below. The one thing you CANNOT do is put in a document that's wider than 8.5" - it just won't fit.) Basically I need this to scan receipts and bills into my local Documents folder on my laptop (a 15" circa 2007 MacBookPro). Once I was able to nail down the calibration issue, the scanner installed with no problems at all and I'm able to select it from Image Capture for a scan that takes maybe 30 seconds from start to finish.Now for the downside - I do agree with other reviewers: This device really needs a paper guide. Anything that isn't perfectly letter- or legal-sized can slide from side to side while you're trying to scan. I haven't had major problems with this - a little slide doesn't yield unreadable docs - but at some point I may need to resort to copying the irregular page and then scanning the copy. Hey, it'd be faster than all the pesky prescanning and adjusting I have to do on my flatbed scanner.I would NOT recommend this scanner for inputting a lot of small photographs. 8" x 10" should be fine, but a smaller, say, 4" x 6" photo is going to slide all over the place while you input it. Forget doing it in 'Flatbed' mode (which requires two scans)....You'd just never be able to get it in the same place twice.(One more edit: I'm using this scanner TO DEATH already! I'm a compulsive magazine clipper, which means I always have a pile of articles lying around. Thanks to this scanner, many of them are now dumped into digital files on my desktop, sorted by topic. I LOVE that I can change the file format or DPI literally with the click of a button and can name the file whatever I want BEFORE the scan, so I don't have to open up all the files to see what's in them, then name them.The ease of this scanner is hard to overstate - the scans are usually right the first time, minus some minor paper slippage that can happen if the page is smaller than 8" x 10" or so, but even then it's usually not drastic.The drivers work well - no 'spinning beachball' or freezing or hanging up. The scans run fast, they save quickly - again, no hanging up...Overall I am QUITE pleased with this device and wish I'd bought it years ago.I'd give it a full five stars if it had a paper guide.)

With my job, I often travel anywhere in the world and not everyplace has the assets to digitally scan my documents. So, I looked around and based on previous customer comments purchased the Brother DS-600 and I wasn't disappointed. Compact and lightweight, this scanner is quicker than any mobile scanner I've owned before, provides crisp and clear scans, as well as having the support software that is easy to use and full featured at the same time.Buy this, you won't be disappointed.

This scanner turned out to be a real blessing. I was selling a house in another state and communications was a real problem.The realtor and the title company kept sending us papers to sign and return. They would email the document to me, I would print it, sign it, copy it with my great DS-600 scanner, and send it back. No running someplace to scan and fax. A real time and cost saver!

After damaging my previous NeatWorks I reviewed multiple reviews on several products with the intent to replace it. I was surprised at many of the negative reviews of NeatWorks and especially the incidents of poor customer service experienced by others. The Brother mobile scanner looked good and had good reviews and cost significantly less so I purchased it. To my dismay it had none of the features of my former Neatworks other than the convenience over a flatbed scanner and only offered basic scanning and saving a file to your hard drive. I tried living with it for a month and couldn't stand it any longer and ordered another NeatWorks Scanner. The Brother and NeatWorks are both convenient mobile scanners, but that's where the comparison ends. The NeatWorks I knew was far superior. I look forward to installing my new NeatWorks and hopefully will get the same dependable and superior product I had before.

Full sheets take some alignment to scan squarely. Smaller papers like cash register receipts also take some adjusting to get on one of the rollers to scan up correctly and will end up scanning crooked or get stuck during the process (but not jammed if that makes sense). The packaged scanning software is "ok" to me. After you play around with it a while you can get it to scan custom sized papers and crop out the black area. It seems to operate fairly inconsistently though. I bought this for travel and off-sized papers so overall it's okay because of the issues listed. Would not be suitable for someone looking for a daily use scanner.

I love this scanner. I use it to scan receipts, and it has yet to have trouble feeding anything I've put through it. The resolution of the scan is excellent, and the softward that comes with the scanner is very easy to use. It fits easily in a desk drawer when I'm not using it.

has a mechanical switch that registers as no paper in scanner if receipt is bowed up at all. entrance chute wont take the receipt if its wrinkled at all. works fine on letter paper. if you dont want it for receipts, great product. if intending to use it to scan lowes, home depot, or sams style receipts, big waste of time and money

I love this thing! Makes scanning on the go a snap! The only issue I have w/ it is the carrying bag, the drawstring broke on the 3rd use. Other than that, it's great.

I bought this for a project but it never fed the paper through straight so I packed it away after 5 uses. Pulled it out today because my larger scanner stopped working. And, of course, it won't feed paper at all. Can't even push through anything less stiff than card stock.Wish it wasn't already out of warranty so I could return this piece of crap and get a scanner that will actually scan anything other than 8 1/2 x 11 sheets of paper.

It's touchy to align the sheet so when you scan it does not show a 1/4 blank page. Overall, it is easy to install and consistence.