Not too bad -- once wireless issues are 'solved' – Epson DocumentScan Review

Update (24 hours later): Epson normally has decent products. I have their V500 flatbed scanner, DS-30 single page scanner, and their 3880 large format color printer. I've never had a problem of any sort with any of them. I decided to investigate further before deciding the scanner had bad firmware. I have both 5 and 2.4 GHz wireless connections and an Apple AirPort Extreme used as an Access Point fed via an Ethernet connection (to my main router which is on the other side of the building) is placed in my office. I began to wonder if the problem was either signal overload or a bandwidth limitation. I moved the wireless on my iPad to the 5GHz band. The scans in infrastructure mode now complete successfully and quickly. I’m satisfied and raised my rating to 4-Stars. I did not test the Access Point mode of operation. I’m not sure when/if I will. A missing item DocumentScan should have IMHO is skew removal both in the pages and the content. I find that to be very useful in Epson Scan 2. It's obviously missing in the iOS app. ============================= 12.9" IPad Pro 2nd generation, iOS 10.3.3 Access point mode: Scans take a looooong time to process . I scanned in a 12 page double-sided stack of pages into a PDF doc at 300dpi. The pages went through quickly. The app then sat there 'scanning' with the activity 'wheel' spinning for nearly 10 minutes before the scan completed and the file was presented. Quite often this action ended with a scanner communication error and I had to power cycle the scanner after which all data was lost. Horrible! I then tried to do a multi-part scan of a 24 page document 12 pages at a time. Every time when the scan completed I loaded the 2nd 12 pages and pressed 'scan more'. Every time the app crashed upon pressing 'scan more' and all pages were lost. Again "Horrible!" Infrastructure mode: Exactly the same things happened. Thus the 1-star rating and the 'Virtually unusable" title of this review. NOTE: The same scans using USB & Epson Scan 2 on my iMac are completed without error. Therefore the problems must be in the wi-if communication system.
Review by The Fiddl3r on Epson DocumentScan.