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product_id: 167093135
title: "ADS-1200"
brand: "brother"
price: "€ 465.33"
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category: "Brother"
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# 25 ppm duplex speed 20-sheet auto feeder USB 3.0 powered & portable ADS-1200

**Brand:** brother
**Price:** € 465.33
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

## Summary

> ⚡ Scan smarter, faster, anywhere—your desk’s new MVP!

## Quick Answers

- **What is this?** ADS-1200 by brother
- **How much does it cost?** € 465.33 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
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## Best For

- brother enthusiasts

## Why This Product

- Trusted brother brand quality
- Free international shipping included
- Worldwide delivery with tracking
- 15-day hassle-free returns

## Key Features

- • **Plug-and-play simplicity:** No software install needed—just connect via USB and start scanning instantly.
- • **Smart image optimization:** Auto color detection, background removal, and text enhancement for flawless digital files.
- • **Compact powerhouse design:** Sleek, space-saving footprint fits perfectly on any desk or on-the-go setup.
- • **Versatile scan destinations:** Send scans directly to PC, USB drive, email, or OCR for seamless workflow integration.
- • **Lightning-fast duplex scanning:** Scan double-sided docs at up to 25 pages per minute—no waiting, no hassle.

## Overview

The Brother ADS-1200 is a compact, USB-powered desktop scanner designed for busy professionals and home offices. It delivers rapid single-pass duplex scanning at 25 ppm with a 20-sheet auto feeder, supports multiple scan destinations including USB drives without software installation, and enhances images automatically for crisp, professional results. Lightweight and portable, it’s perfect for streamlining document workflows wherever you work.

## Description

The Brother ADS-1200 Compact Desktop Scanner is ideally suited for small office/home office professionals with its compact design and simple workflow applications. The ADS-1200 offers single-pass, duplex, color scan speeds of up to 25ppm1, 20-page capacity auto document feeder for scanning documents, receipts, photos and more plus dedicated card slot for scanning plastic cards. Power the ADS-1200 through a USB 3.0 connection to your laptop or PC6 to make it highly portable. Mass Storage Device recognition lets you scan and retrieve files without installing special software on the connected PC.Scan to multiple destinations including File2, OCR2, Email and USB flash memory drive3. The ADS-1200 is compatible with Windows, Mac and Linux and supports TWAIN, WIA, ICA and SANE drivers4.The scanner software suite provides document management and OCR software for easy document storage and retrieval5. Image optimization lets you enhance scans for optimum imaging. Disclaimers:1. Color and monochrome scan speed, LTR at 300dpi.2. When connected to a PC with applicable software.3. USB flash memory drive sold separately.4. Drivers and bundled software available via download on manufacturer’s website. Internet connection required. Refer to User Guide for more information.5. Features dependent upon downloaded driver and software. Bundled document management programs downloaded separately on manufacturer’s website. Internet connection required. Refer to User Guide for more information.6. Requires USB 3.0 compatible PC and cable.

Review: Pretty good scanner. Too early to tell of its performance but its doing great. - I bought this scanner in order to make up for the inconvenience of using my older huge HP-Officejet Pro 8600 All-In-One printer. Its been a great scanner no question about it. But turning it on, waiting for it to warm up, and much of the time turning on my desktop computer, can have its drawbacks. I wanted something that I could connect to my laptop and quickly scan other documents, receipt, etc. I had been 'eyeing' many of these portable scanners via desertcart, most of which had these great reviews. After too much searching did I finally come down to this one which seemed to be the winner of cost and features. Despite the fact that the stupid mailman threw the package over my 7-foot fence and landed on the lawn, this Brother ADS-1200 seems to have worked okay. I am very happy with it and I am very impressed with its convenience and use. Although the Officejet Pro 8600 is still capable of scanning certain types of thicker media this smaller scanner will never be able to, it is the smaller receipts that this little one will not be beat. That older 8600 has already scanned thousands of items, it is time to give it a break. I am still on the early stages of using this smaller device, I am still learning from it. I mostly use it to scan smaller receipts which do come by the numbers. It will not scan narrow and excessively long receipts which I occasionally do get. These types of longer ones will get jammed and I usually cut them in half or so before I use several utility programs on my laptop to tailor them into a digital 8½ x 11 sheet. Everything so far went well. Some times you will get a lop-sided receipt but I found this freely downloadable Libre Office program having a feature to straighten them up. Although I have read a number of complaints from people buying this ADS-1200, to me I have found none. Interface software was a breeze to install. Again I am still on the learning phase of using this little beast and I will leave updates if necessary. One of things that left me breathless is how fast it scans small stacks of paper. It beats the 8600 Office Jet Pro hands down. Again - still too many features to use and explore. But so far it has been a life saver. Very, very happy with it. I am so glad I bought it.
Review: used it with a USB thumbdrive, dirt simple and easy! - I bought this for an archival project; cleaning out the wife's parents' house and had boxes and boxes and boxes of pictures and documents that needed scanning. I was not looking forward to clicking a mouse the (literally) thousands of times it was going to require to run a scanner application on a laptop while going through these boxes. This scanner lets you run it without connecting to a computer! Insert a blank thumbdrive in the back, place the picture on the tray (face down and upside down / top first), and hit the scan button. It scans both sides of the picture including the writing on the back and stores it on the thumbdrive as a PDF. Every PDF file name has a 5 or 6 digit counter, so there's no typing filenames and there's no clicking of a mouse a dozen times. It figures out the edges and crops the scan properly all on its own! If the back of the picture is blank, it makes a 1-page PDF; if it has writing, it's a 2-page PDF. This past weekend my wife and I took this scanner to her parents' house and we set up a sort of assembly line in the garage with all the boxes, and this scanner, and she and I scanned over 4000 pictures and documents in an afternoon! Insert, scan, next pic. Insert, scan, next pic. I stopped after a dozen, and put the thumbdrive in the computer to see if it was going OK, and the PDF scans looked PERFECT! So we did the rest. Later I used the "convert" utility from ImageMagick to extract JPGs from all the PDFs, and they were great quality. It's nice to have those thousands of pictures archived for all time. The scanner worked perfectly!

## Features

- COMPACT DESIGN AND FAST SCAN SPEEDS HANDLE A VARIETY OF DOCUMENTS: Scan single and double sided, documents in a single pass at up to 25 ppm1. Dedicated card slot to scan plastic cards, plus 20 page capacity auto document feeder for quick scanning
- QUICK AND EASY SCANNING WITHOUT INSTALLING SOFTWARE: Mass Storage Device support via Scan to USB for file scanning and retrieval by opening the drive on a connected PC. Use your laptop to power the ADS 1200 when connected with a USB 3.0 cable6
- EASY TO USE AND SAVES TIME: Scan documents to preset destinations like a connected PC or USB flash drive with the push of a button
- COMPATIBLE WITH THE WAY YOU WORK: Supports multiple “Scan to” destinations: File2, OCR2, Email and USB flash memory drive3 so you can optimize for your business process
- OPTIMIZE IMAGES AND TEXT: Enhance scans with automatic color detection/adjustment, image rotation (PC only), bleed through/background removal, text enhancement, color drop. Software suite5 includes document management and OCR software

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| ASIN | B07WSJQWVQ |
| Best Sellers Rank | #13,494 in Office Products ( See Top 100 in Office Products ) #13 in Document Scanners |
| Brand | Brother |
| Color Depth | 24 bpp |
| Connection Type | USB |
| Customer Reviews | 4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars (1,621) |
| Global Trade Identification Number | 00012502651956 |
| Item Dimensions D x W x H | 11.7"D x 11.7"W x 3.4"H |
| Item Weight | 3.3 Pounds |
| Light Source Type | LED |
| Manufacturer | Brother International |
| Media Type | USB |
| Minimum System Requirements | Windows 7 |
| Model Name | Old Model: ADS1200 |
| Optical Sensor Technology | CCD |
| Paper Size | 8.5 x 34 inches |
| Resolution | 300 |
| Scanner Type | Document |
| Standard Sheet Capacity | 20 |
| UPC | 012502651956 |
| Unit Count | 1.0 Count |
| Warranty Description | 1 Year Limited Manufacturer |
| Wattage | 8 watts |

## Product Details

- **Brand:** Brother
- **Color Depth:** 24 bpp
- **Connectivity Technology:** USB
- **Item Weight:** 3.3 Pounds
- **Model Name:** Old Model: ADS1200
- **Product Dimensions:** 11.7"D x 11.7"W x 3.4"H
- **Resolution:** 300
- **Scanner Type:** Document
- **Standard Sheet Capacity:** 20
- **Wattage:** 8 watts

## Images

![ADS-1200 - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71ZfZXndVSL.jpg)

## Available Options

This product comes in different **Pattern, Style** options.

## Questions & Answers

**Q: When I try to scan, it flashes for a long time then eventually scans but it is scanning the pages as separate documents and jpegs.  I need pdf.**
A: I have a MAC. I use the image capture app on the mac to do my scans. It has boxes for settings, like pdf, and for making individual sheets into one document

**Q: I've seen videos in people's reviews where their ads1200 scanner is scanning at least twice the speed of mine. why is mine scanning so slowly?**
A: You can adjust the resolution of the scanning.  Higher resolution scans will take longer than lower resolution scans.

**Q: I need something that won't damage sports cards. Would this be a solution for me?**
A: The Brother ADS-1200 document scanner has a curved document path, so it would not be good for scanning sports cards. When scanning media such as card stock, Brother recommends scanning with a straight document path scanner.

**Q: Does this work with MacBooks?**
A: The ADS-1200 works very well with Macs. To use with a Mac start by going to the Brother website to download the ADS-1200 driver. You will be given a choice of downloading either the TWAIN driver or the ICA driver. On the download page they don’t give you any guidance as to which to choose, but elsewhere in the Brother website I found a statement saying that the TWAIN driver has some compatibility issues with the latest macOS system (Monterey as of this writing), so download the ICA driver. I don’t know why Brother gives you a choice of downloading a driver that may not work. I've found that the ADS-1200 works well with Apple’s Image Capture Application. That’s what ICA stands for. Image Capture is integrated into the macOS and can be found in your applications folder.

## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Pretty good scanner. Too early to tell of its performance but its doing great.
*by A***. on November 2, 2021*

I bought this scanner in order to make up for the inconvenience of using my older huge HP-Officejet Pro 8600 All-In-One printer. Its been a great scanner no question about it. But turning it on, waiting for it to warm up, and much of the time turning on my desktop computer, can have its drawbacks. I wanted something that I could connect to my laptop and quickly scan other documents, receipt, etc. I had been 'eyeing' many of these portable scanners via Amazon, most of which had these great reviews. After too much searching did I finally come down to this one which seemed to be the winner of cost and features. Despite the fact that the stupid mailman threw the package over my 7-foot fence and landed on the lawn, this Brother ADS-1200 seems to have worked okay. I am very happy with it and I am very impressed with its convenience and use. Although the Officejet Pro 8600 is still capable of scanning certain types of thicker media this smaller scanner will never be able to, it is the smaller receipts that this little one will not be beat. That older 8600 has already scanned thousands of items, it is time to give it a break. I am still on the early stages of using this smaller device, I am still learning from it. I mostly use it to scan smaller receipts which do come by the numbers. It will not scan narrow and excessively long receipts which I occasionally do get. These types of longer ones will get jammed and I usually cut them in half or so before I use several utility programs on my laptop to tailor them into a digital 8½ x 11 sheet. Everything so far went well. Some times you will get a lop-sided receipt but I found this freely downloadable Libre Office program having a feature to straighten them up. Although I have read a number of complaints from people buying this ADS-1200, to me I have found none. Interface software was a breeze to install. Again I am still on the learning phase of using this little beast and I will leave updates if necessary. One of things that left me breathless is how fast it scans small stacks of paper. It beats the 8600 Office Jet Pro hands down. Again - still too many features to use and explore. But so far it has been a life saver. Very, very happy with it. I am so glad I bought it.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ used it with a USB thumbdrive, dirt simple and easy!
*by P***P on April 28, 2022*

I bought this for an archival project; cleaning out the wife's parents' house and had boxes and boxes and boxes of pictures and documents that needed scanning. I was not looking forward to clicking a mouse the (literally) thousands of times it was going to require to run a scanner application on a laptop while going through these boxes. This scanner lets you run it without connecting to a computer! Insert a blank thumbdrive in the back, place the picture on the tray (face down and upside down / top first), and hit the scan button. It scans both sides of the picture including the writing on the back and stores it on the thumbdrive as a PDF. Every PDF file name has a 5 or 6 digit counter, so there's no typing filenames and there's no clicking of a mouse a dozen times. It figures out the edges and crops the scan properly all on its own! If the back of the picture is blank, it makes a 1-page PDF; if it has writing, it's a 2-page PDF. This past weekend my wife and I took this scanner to her parents' house and we set up a sort of assembly line in the garage with all the boxes, and this scanner, and she and I scanned over 4000 pictures and documents in an afternoon! Insert, scan, next pic. Insert, scan, next pic. I stopped after a dozen, and put the thumbdrive in the computer to see if it was going OK, and the PDF scans looked PERFECT! So we did the rest. Later I used the "convert" utility from ImageMagick to extract JPGs from all the PDFs, and they were great quality. It's nice to have those thousands of pictures archived for all time. The scanner worked perfectly!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Easy to Use Compact Duplex Scanner
*by N***L on June 8, 2023*

This Brother scanner is a not a flatbed. The model I got allows one pass full duplex scanning of multiple pages. There is a cheaper single page model and a more expensive wireless model. It does NOT come with software. You must go to the provided URL to download and install it. Installation and setup was easy. It works exactly as described. You need an available USB port to connect to your PC. You can save your scans on your PC or network, or even to a USB flash drive on the available data port. My only complaint is that there is no slide out extension to hold pages for feeding the scanner. This is a minor issue. This device is fast, easy to use, and produces quality images or PDFs. It does have include app software - I like the Kofax Power PDF Standard. It also has a very small footprint. It packs a lot of power in a small device.

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