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Do you have piles of unsorted business on your desk or stuck in your keyboard from the last time you went to SWPP Convention or Focus?
I have found that CardScan (link below), a small desktop USB device costing £199, can quickly and accurately read the printed information from business cards into a powerfull searchable contact database.
If like me you keep all your contact information in Outlook you’ll know that means having to read the small print on business cards and the type in the information accurately.
With the CardScan unit you just feed cards in at about a rate of one a second. The device takes a copy of the scanned image and uses OCR software to populate the fields in its own contact manager software.
The Cardscan software will open as soon as you start to scan a card. You can also scan and process batches of cards in up to five different languages and automatically categorise the results. The latest Cardscan 8 program is a self-contained contact management application that can be used to organise all sorts of data beyond what’s scanned in from business cards.
Once the image is captured you can review and edit the fields on the card entry. Underneath the captured content fields is the original image of the card, with one click you can zoom into the image to check the details.
There is also a synchronise feature so that the CardScan database can be automatically synced with the Outlook contact database.
The great thing about the CardScan database is that you end up with the original images of the card plus anything that you may have written on it.
Then of course there’s a cherry on top of every cake, with CardScan this means you get the ability to access your card database over the internet from anywhere using Cardscan’s free service.