CardScan Personal 8 (PC)

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Editorial reviews

Product Description
The CardScan Personal V8 from CardScan is the smallest and most economical scanning system around! Specially designed to scan business cards, it works with Outlook, PDAs, certain telephones and iPods, and transfers your contacts directly to your inbox in just 5 seconds. With the CardScan Personal scanner, you can consult information easily. Dimensions: 11.4 x 7.9 cm

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Manufacturer's Description

CardScan Personal is the smallest, most affordable system from CardScan - ideal for the user on the go. Synchronizes easily with Outlook, PDAs and smart phones. Monochrome scanning in only 5 seconds per card. Synchronise easily with Outlook, PDA's smart phones, plus ACT!, Lotus Notes and GoldMine.

Ideal for today's mobile lifestyle, the new palm-sized scanner featured in CardScan Personal measures only 4.5" x 3.125" and has a closing scanner door, detachable USB cord and handy travel pouch.

CardScan makes managing, finding and reaching contacts a snap. Assign contacts to any of the scores of business categories provided, or create custom categories of your own. Find contacts as you type your search criteria with CardScan's QuickSearch feature. Use the de-duping wizard to eliminate duplicate records. Print labels to any DYMO LabelWriter, to most every other label format or print directly on envelopes. Just click to call any contact, to send email to single or multiple contacts, or to generate a MapQuest map for any contact location.

Use a PDA or handheld? CardScan's ability to synchronise with these and other devices makes it the ideal contact management hub.

In addition to all these great features that CardScan has offered for years, there are a number of new features in CardScan version 8 that make managing contacts even easier.

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Box Contents

Cardscan Personal software

Cardscan Personal scanner

Detachable USB cord (USB 2.0 certified)

1 scanner calibration card

1 scanner cleaning card

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Customer reviews

review by: date: 2007-10-29 rating:
Declutter your desk!
The CardScan is one of those products that you wonder why people buy until you get one and can see the advantages. I keep all of my contacts in outlook but that means having to read the small print on business cards and the type the information accurately in. Like most people I just end up with a pile of cards not entered into Outlook. After loading the software just plug in the card scan devise. It's solid, well made and does not slip on the desk. You can feed cards in at about the rate of one a second and it takes a copy of the scanned image and uses OCR software to populate the fields in its own contact manager software. Its accuracy rate is very high except on business cards that have fancy shapes that cover text. Hardly the fault of Cardscan. Just one tip with the Cardscan. Use the device at a height of about three inches so that the cards fall flat onto the desk. If you don't do this and scan a lot of cards they can slip underneath previous cards and be difficult to find if you need to review or rescan cards.

Once the image is captured you can review and edit the fields on the card. Underneath content fields is the card of the card and one click zooms the card to check details. A great feature. Once you have verified the cards I transfer them to Outlook automatically via the synchronize feature which works well. You end up with two databases but they are both in sync. The great thing about the CardScan database is that you have the image of the card plus anything that you wrote on it. It's much easier to remember people when you can see their card than just seeing the raw list in Outlook. Overall the CardScan database is better than Outlook in terms of easy of use but lacks some of the integration features.

I now have no piles of business cards at all and can access my card database over the internet from anywhere using Cardscans free service. A nice feature. It just needs a bit more work on being able to select all information on the database and the card feed issue then it would be perfect.

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