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CardScan Executive Card Scanner (Mac)

by CardScan
3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)


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Technical Details

  • Scanner designed especially for Mac captures and manages your valuable contact information
  • Scans up to 20 business cards a minute in color; consolidates contact info from electronic sources, including web sites and email signatures
  • Designed to work with Mac OS 10.5.3+ (Leopard); includes software for Windows users
  • Can sync automatically with Mac's Address Book
  • Includes risk-free 30-day trial

Product Details

  • Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.5 x 2.5 inches ; 14.4 ounces
  • Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
  • Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
  • ASIN: B001FB54P4
  • Item model number: 1750381
  • Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
  • Date first available at Amazon.com: September 15, 2008

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description The CardScan Executive for Mac User Interface and Business Card Scanner make it easy to capture and manage your valuable contact information. Featuring software designed from the ground up to work with features of the Mac Leopard OS, this system lets you consolidate contact information from business cards and electronic documents, including email signatures and web sites. In addition, this scanner makes it easy to sync contacts in your Address book, iPod, and iPhone to meet your on-the-go needs.

CardScan Executive for Mac:
  • Scans up to 20 business cards a minute
  • Captures contact info from email signatures and vCards
  • Synchs with Address Book, iPhones, and iPods
  • Exports data to Entourage and other software


The easy-to-navigate UI was designed to maximize existing features of your Mac. View larger.


True drag-and-drop ease makes capturing digital contact information simple. View larger.


With its slim, elegant design the scanner fits neatly in your workstation. View larger.
Capture Contact Information
The CardScan Executive scanner can scan up to 20 business cards a minute in color. Known for fast, accurate performance, the scanner works with native Mac software to help you convert the data on business cards into a digital form that's easy to use.

You can also use the CardScan software to consolidate contact information from electronic sources, including web sites and email signatures. With drag-and-drop performance, the CardScan makes creating a complete contact record as easy as highlighting the contact data you want, dragging it over the list area of the CardScan window, and releasing.

Designed to work with Mac OS 10.5.3+ (Leopard), the new easy-to-use CardScan interface combines Mac-specific design with many of the functions that have made CardScan for Windows an award-winning choice for business professionals. Updated CardScan sofware for Windows is also included in the Executive package, so you can be sure you'll have access to the version that meets your needs.

Manage Contacts With Ease
Once your contacts are entered in the CardScan software, you can assign single or multiple customizable categories to each one. This makes it easy to sort contacts, view them in groups, and prepare lists of contacts for email or direct mail. Plus with the easy-to-use Print Wizard, creating custom envelopes, labels, and more is hassle-free. All this means that outreach projects get done faster and are easier to keep track of.

Using the "Batch Scan" feature to scan a whole stack of business cards at once lets you quickly assign several cards the same category or notes, saving you time. And when you can't remember someone's name, but you know what their business card looks like, the image view feature lets you fan through color images of all your scanned business cards.

Stay in Sync on the Move
Keep your contact list up-to-date across the applications and mobile devices that you use on a daily basis. Since CardScan can be set up to sync automatically with Mac's Address Book, it's easy to keep the contact lists in your iPhone, iPod, and MobileMe network in synch, too. It's equally easy to export information as vCards (electronic business cards) to other software, including Microsoft Entourage.

All CardScan products offer a risk-free 30-day trial. And all new CardScan Executive systems include software for both Windows and Mac OS.


What's in the Box
Color business card scanner, software for Mac OS and Windows.

Product Description

Consolidate all your contact data; accurately scan business cards, drag-and-drop from email signatures, sync to Address Book and easily print to a range of templates. CardScan Executive for Mac makes it easy to capture, organize and manage all your contact data. Featuring the most accurate leading business card scanner, read cards at up to 20 per minute. Capture complete contact information from email signatures in one step. Categorize your contacts in multiple ways to create custom lists and views and see scanned business cards with image view. Email and map contact addresses directly from CardScan and easily print to envelopes, labels and more. Automatically sync to Address Book or export as needed, including in vCard format. From the trusted company that&8217;s been leading business card scanning for over 14 years, CardScan Executive for Mac was designed from the ground up to work on Leopard, making it easy to capture and manage your contact information.


Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews
26 of 26 people found the following review helpful
Works for me, flawlessly! October 25, 2008
Fortunately, I was eligible for a $179 competitive upgrade direct from the manufacturer for an old CardScan Windows brick I found down in my basement in the box of orphaned peripherals. I had loved CardScan back in my Windows days, but had lost hope that they would come out with a Mac version. In the meantime, I had struggled with the kludgey I.R.I.S. business card scanner for mac and its flakey crapware that really didn't integrate with Mac Address Book all that well and had a horrible OCR recognition error rate and field parsing engine and seemed to run like it was written in Javascript.

Well, I'm happy that the Mac version of CardScan works flawlessly for me with a typical Mac setup (an Intel Mac Book Pro running 10.5.5.) and that setup was a snap. With some trepidation, I synched with my Address Book and no precious contact data was lost or damaged. I then scanned some business cards and it parsed the various fields with almost 100% accuracy, including some tricky company names in graphic logos, and put the data in a suggested "inspector" window. One click to verify (or change any fields with a linked zoom to the card pane view) and the new card data is in the CardScan database and then synched with your mac Address Book.

Couldn't be easier! Very satisfied user! While I'm not a frequent Amazon reviewer or any kind of computer expert, I wanted to post a counter review to the two negative reviews recently posted. While individual products and installations can sometimes be flaky and your mileage may vary, I found this CardScan product to be as good as I remember the Windows version being and better, because everything's better on a Mac (including Address Book being better than the fugly Outlook ecosystem).
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
I bought this product a year ago after seeing it at the Macworld Expo and and initially liked it. But the initial excitement wore off quickly:

1.) When I synced with my address book, I lost all my address book entries. This is a rather big deal, so please make sure you back up your address book before you sync.

2.) I bought a new Mac recently and installed the cardscan software on that new Mac. To my surprise, it turned out that I was not able to use the software on both my old and my new Mac. I received a message that the license key was already used and that I had to buy a new one (for $207.99!). This is despite the fact that, when I bought the scanner and the software, there was no mention of any restriction of the license to one seat or one computer or one user. The order confirmation did not mention any license restrictions and the license agreement that is embedded in the software does not refer to such restriction. I believe strongly in intellectual property protection, BUT, but it is a very questionable business practice to disable the use of a product that a customer paid for in full until an additional (and, I might add, substantial) amount is paid when that was not part of the purchase or license agreement. Obviously, if taken to court, the company would lose. But if you are not prepared to go to that kind of trouble, you might want to stay away from this product. When I emailed the company inquiring about this business practice, I received no reply to my question.

3.) When it became clear that the company was not going do to anything about the random license restriction, I asked about the necessary steps to remove the software and all related files from my old Mac in order to be able to use the license key with my new Mac. Saying that this was like pulling teeth would be a huge understatement. I had to send 7 or 8 emails to finally get the answers. Mind you, this is something that is normally clearly stated on a software company's website or is even in the embedded help file. And even if not, it hardly ever takes more than one email to a software company to get clear instructions; not even from small software developers who don't have a dedicated customer support team.

If you plan on using this product on one computer only, don't plan on buying a new computer that you want to use the scanner with and don't plan on contacting customer support, you will probably be fine. Otherwise, I would think twice about buying this scanner.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
CardScan Executive for Mac Card ScannerI go to so many Music Industry events, and constantly am being given dozens of business cards. I've been terrible at follow-up. My prior system was no system at all. I tried keeping them in a folder of plastic card sheets - but after a time, alphabetizing became impossible, and I couldn't always place who someone was or where I'd met them. I tried entering them in my MAC address book, but it was time consuming, and these multitudes of cards got mixed in with my close friends and associates. So Executive Card Scan for Mac was the best ever solution. I scan a card, it takes a couple seconds, I check to make sure it has picked up all the info. (Most normally printed cards scan perfectly, but hand painted designs such as my own cards don't scan properly). I then correct any info if necessary, and then I have a great space to write in any comments or notations, such as where and when I met someone. I can also email (it connects to Outlook) straight from the site. I can click next to an address and connect to a Google map of how to get there. And I can keep full records on further contact with the individual whose card it is. I can arrange all my contacts in personal or job categories too. All in all, this product was money well spent. Pamela Phillips Oland
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
What a time saver !
What a time saver. I am in sales and get a ton of business cards every week. I used to log these into my data files once per month, and it took me hours. Read more
Published 3 months ago by officegeek
Doesn't work with Mac OSX 10.7
Software is incompatible with OSX 10.7. Download on cardscan site doesn't work. Customer service doesn't return emails. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Soc entrep
Export poor
Scans cards fairly well (after update). But exporting to Apple Address Book does not allow for a specific Group but rather to entire database. Read more
Published 12 months ago by JM
Make sure you don't get an OLD shelf copy!
Product seems to work well when installed. BUT, I had to wait in the support queue to get a license code that worked and turns out Amazon has the "old" software on the shelf and... Read more
Published 16 months ago by J. Wood
LOVE this scanner!
I was a bit leery of having another piece of gadgetry cluttering up my workstation. CardScan executive creates order from the chaos of accumulated business cards. Read more
Published 16 months ago by Capricorn Girl
card scan
only problem was that the software included was not the correct one. It had to be downloaded from the OEM.
Published 20 months ago by dieter
Godd scanner but buy from manufacturer
I love the card scanner but it did not work when I bought it. After 2 phone calls to the manufacturer, they figured out that my card scanner had old software and did not work with... Read more
Published 20 months ago by Rugosa rose
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Works as advertised. Went from cardscan for PC to cardscan for MAC. Works great
Published on May 18, 2010 by Earl Wertheim
Works Fine, But Buy CardScan Exective
I was concerned by some of the negative reviews, but this thing works just fine. OCR is remarkable. Save yourself a few dollars and just get the CardScan Executive version, it... Read more
Published on May 1, 2010 by Digerati
Who knew...
I've had boxes of business cards on my desk for years. An employee convinced me this was a good thing to do and was she ever right. Read more
Published on March 3, 2010 by Sadie's mom
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