Brother Image Center ADS-2000

• Pros Scans to USB thumb drives. Good OCR performance. Good feature set for a moderately priced desktop scanner.
• Cons Somewhat slow for its rated speed, particularly at default settings. More misfeeds than usual for a desktop scanner.
• Bottom Line The Brother ImageCenter ADS-2000 packs some nifty features for a modestly priced desktop scanner, such as the ability to scan to USB keys, but proved rather sluggish for its rated speed.

An uncommon feature of the ADS-2000 is the ability to scan to USB keys, as well as to Android phones (though only over a cable). Other interesting features are 2-in-1 scanning (stitching 2 documents together into a ledger-sized scanned document) and continuous scanning (the ability to scan documents longer than the ADF's 50-page maximum).

It also has multi-feed detection, for catching when more than one page is fed through the scanner at once and stopping the scan so you can re-feed the unscanned sheet(s). This is a good thing to have, especially as in my testing the scanner had a relatively high number of misfeeds—I had to scuttle several test runs because of them. More Review...