The Brother ADS-1700W ($269.99) is a portable sheet-feed scanner designed for relatively high-volume document digitizing on the road. It's the first portable scanner with a touch screen control panel we've seen. It also offers several excellent perks, including the ability to scan directly to USB drives and a high daily duty cycle. There's no battery option, though, which limits its portability and keeps it in second place behind the Editors' Choice Epson WorkForce ES-300W. Unique Features Portable scanners are usually small and light by nature, but the ADS-1700W, especially considering its lack of a built-in battery, is a bit big and heavy. It measures 3.3 by 11.8 by 4.1 inches (HWD) and weighs 3.7 pounds. That's slightly taller, wider, deeper, and about a pound heavier than the Epson ES-300W, and taller and heavier still than Epson's DS-320 ($299.00 at Amazon) . Visioneer's Patriot P15, another portable scanner sans battery, is the same width and depth and less than a half-a-po...
The Brother ADS-1700W is a fast and accurate portable document scanner that offers a slew of features that will be attractive to road warriors.
Fast scanning and text recognition; Accurate OCR; Strong software bundle; Supports scanning to USB drives; Color touch screen
No battery; Heavier than other portable scanners