Epson WorkForce DS-575W Wireless Color Document Scanner - Review 2022

The Epson WorkForce DS-575W ($399.99) is a low- to mid-volume certificate scanner designed for micro and pocket-size offices and workgroups. It's comparable in price and speed to the Editors' Choice Brother ADS-2700W Wireless Loftier-Speed Desktop Document Scanner. The DS-575W is a fine desktop scanner, merely the Brother model supports Ethernet networking and is considerably more authentic. That said, at that place are plenty of small-part and dwelling-based-office scenarios where Ethernet isn't required, and where the DS-575W would make a good personal scanner. It's not robust enough to dislodge the Brother ADS-2700W from its height slot, but it's still a fine niggling entry- to mid-level desktop scanner.

Back to Basics

With its trays closed, the DS-575W measures 6.9 by eleven.6 past half-dozen.6 inches (HWD) and weighs eight.1 pounds, making information technology a not bad package when folded up out of service on your desktop. Like near of its competitors, though, when you extend the input and output trays, it near triples in height and length. Brother'due south ADS-2700W is quite shut in size and weighs about 2.five pounds less, the HP ScanJet Pro 3000 s3 Sheet-Feed Scanner, another Editors' Choice model, is larger past well-nigh an inch in all directions and weighs about a half-pound less, and Epson'due south own WorkForce ES-500W Wireless Duplex Document Scanner, the DS-575W'southward sibling, is identical in size and weight.

The DS-575W comes with a 50-sheet automatic document feeder (ADF), and Epson rates it at iv,000 pages per solar day, the aforementioned every bit the Epson ES-500W. The ADF size is about average for scanners in this price range, but the DS-575W and the ES-500W have one of the larger daily duty cycles in this class. The Blood brother ADS-2700W and the HP ScanJet Pro 3000 both have l-canvas ADFs, just lower daily duty cycles.

Of the scanners discussed hither, the DS-575W's control panel, which consists of a handful of buttons and several condition LEDs, is ane of the least sophisticated. For example, it has no display panel for interacting with the scanner, the PCs on the network, or the Net. From elevation to bottom, the buttons are: Power, Wi-Fi Connect (or Wi-Fi Protected Setup, or WPS, for 1-touch connexion to a wireless network), Wi-Fi Connected status, Double-Feed Detection/Skip, Slow Mode, and Stop (Cancel). The near-field communication (NFC) button for scanning to a mobile device past touching it to the NFC hotspot on the scanner is, in this case, located in the top-right corner of the front end embrace.

Connectivity options on the DS-575W consist of Wi-Fi and connecting to a single PC via USB 3.0/2.0 (a USB 3.0 cable is included). Ethernet is available via a $349.99 network interface unit of measurement. (Because that you tin become Ethernet with several machines, such every bit the Brother ADS-2700W, for free, and that some others, including the HP ScanJet Pro 3000, offer an upgrade for about $50, Epson's upgrade seems expensive.

Easy Setup, Comprehensive Software Parcel

It just takes about ten to fifteen minutes to ready up the DS-575W, and that includes a visit to epson.com to download the drivers and utilities. Epson stopped including discs in the box a while back. Physical setup entails removing a few strips of tape and some Styrofoam-like material.

The drivers and utilities downloaded and installed without a hitch. In addition to the drivers, yous get Abbyy FineReader Sprint, Epson Scan 2, Document Capture Pro, and NewSoft Presto BizCard OCR. With this packet, you get several ways to scan your documents and save them. Epson Browse ii is a very apt and efficient scanner interface; it does what nearly users of a scanner of this caliber would demand it to do, and more.

Document Capture Pro is not but a scanning user interface, but also an introductory-grade document-management program forth the lines of (but not quite as robust as) Nuance PaperPort for cataloging, archiving, and finding and retrieving your scans. It'southward also the utility you would utilize for creating your workflow profiles, such as Browse to File, Scan to Email, so on. Abbyy FineReader Sprint is a pared down version of the pop optical character recognition (OCR) program, Abbyy FineReader xiv, for converting your scanned text into editable text. NewSoft Presto BizCard OCR is a business organisation card optical graphic symbol recognition and information-archiving plan.

Efficient Scanning Speed

Epson rates the DS-575W at 35 one-sided, or simplex, pages per infinitesimal (ppm) and 70 two-sided, or duplex, images per infinitesimal (or ipm, where each side of a page counts as an image), which is the same as the Epson ES-500W, the Brother ADS-2700W, and the HP ScanJet Pro 3000. These ratings refer to only the physical scanning of the documents, the time between your hit the first push and when the last page hits the output tray. They practise not include the additional time required to save your scans to a usable file format, such every bit PDF or searchable PDF, which we call "lag time." I tested the DS-575W over USB 3.0 running Epson Browse 2 on our standard Intel Core i5 testbed PC running Windows ten Professional.

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Without the lag time, the DS-575W scanned our 25-page ane-sided document at the rate of 41.5ppm and our 25-folio ii-sided (l sides) document at 72.3ipm, just faster than Epson's ratings. It scanned to image PDF at the charge per unit of 35.7ppm and 67.4ipm, which is quite good. The Blood brother ADS-2700W scanned the same document at 33.7ppm and 69ipm; the HP ScanJet Pro 3000 came in about 4ppm slower than the DS-575W in simplex mode and 2ppm slower in duplex mode; and the Epson ES-500W'south scores were virtually identical to its DS-575W sibling.

When saving to the more useful searchable PDF format, the DS-575W scanned our two-sided 25-page document in 48 seconds. That'due south 3 seconds slower than the Brother ADS-2700W; 2 seconds slower than the HP ScanJet Pro 3000; and about 1 second slower than the Epson ES-500W.

OCR and Business organisation Card Accuracy

How well the DS-575W and accompanying software converted scanned text to edited text during my tests was one of the more disappointing aspects of testing this scanner; it didn't even perform as well as the Epson ES-500W (which is essentially the same scanner). When scanning our Arial exam page and converting it to editable text, the DS-575W scanned fault free downward to 8 points and our Times New Roman test page without errors downwards to ten points.

Eight points for both fonts, which is how the Epson ES-500W fared, is well-nigh average. The HP ScanJet Pro 3000 managed 6 points on the Arial page without errors, and viii points on the Times New Roman font. The Brother ADS 2700W, on the other hand, turned in an exceptional 6 points on the Arial font and v points on the Times New Roman font. This is an important distinction if y'all don't want to spend too much fourth dimension making corrections. Ten points isn't necessarily dismal, merely it is the bare minimum.

I also scanned a few stacks of business cards in to BizCard and got expected results. The software does a good job of scanning and converting information from simple cards without a lot of backgrounds, decorative fonts, and other design elements that interfere with deciphering the text. Equally with my previous tests with this and other programs, I've found it benign to create two or more stacks of cards based on the complexity of the blueprint. The highly circuitous cards are sometimes easier to enter manually than having to become back and edit about every field.

Running With the Pack

The Epson WorkForce DS-575W Certificate Scanner is relatively fast for its course, information technology scans well enough for most business concern applications, and it comes with a comprehensive software bundle. My but real complaint is that it didn't perform all that well on the Times New Roman font portion of our OCR accuracy test. It's not that its accurateness was dismal; it's just that so many other machines take performed better here. A few like-priced scanners, such as Epson's own WorkForce ES-500W, provide additional value and accurately convert small Times New Roman fonts to editable text. Fifty-fifty and so, that'southward just i aspect of what certificate scanners do. And the Epson DS-575W performs well enough in all other areas to render it a adept choice for low- to mid-book certificate scanning in a dwelling house-based or modest business, or equally a personal certificate scanner.