Brother ADS-4700W Desktop Scanner

Works with Linux over USB and over the network. This thing is so feature-packed it's hard to decide where to start. It exceeded my expectations! It's clearly designed to work in a small office with multiple users. It works well over a network, it even enables multiple levels of encryption -- it can transfer over SSH (SFTP) by setting up the usual SSH authorized keys AND it can encrypt the (PDF) files. It allows you to set up HTTPS for a secure network-based administration interface. It can be configured to work with your users via your LDAP/Active Directory system. It also keeps counters for documents scanned. The network configuration interface is a bit clunky at times -- setting up the scan profiles is time-consuming -- I can't copy one scan profile into another and then change one setting (like the destination directory and file name). Allows you to set up "shortcuts" on the LCD panel so it takes as few as two taps to start scanning. All of that said, I've had a few cases where the auto-deskew feature failed. The scanning element got dirty somehow (dust I suspect) and the resulting scans had vertical bands -- it would be nice if there was some way to detect that (an IR sensor like that used in some negative scanners perhaps?) and pause the scans or even auto-clean itself. I was really hoping to use the OCR feature but that seems to require Windows integration -- the Linux proprietary drivers are limited to the old SANE standard as best I can tell. The speed with which it scans at reasonable, non-photographic DPIs and the reliability of the automatic document feeder are excellent. It jams rarely, jams are easy to clear, become easy to anticipate, and after a jam it allows you to continue scanning rather than forcing you to start all over. It do wish it accepted somewhat wider pages as some things are a few inches wider than 8.5 inches.