CardScan Executive 700 Compact Business Card Scanner

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Product Manual [806kb PDF]

• Item Weight: 2.5 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B0002WYJN0
• Item model number: SC-A07170-ENG
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #8,640 in Electronics (See Bestsellers in Electronics)

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• Date first available at Amazon.com: December 19, 2005

Product Description

From the Manufacturer
Announcing the CardScan Executive 700, the latest generation of the world's best-selling business card reader. It's half the size and weight of the previous Executive and far more powerful. Imagine scanning a business card in just two seconds. Finding contacts is even faster and easier, using a completely redesigned user interface. And the sleek new design looks great on your desk, in just half the space. CardScan Executive offers Corex's fastest scanning speed, full compatibility with every popular contact program and portable device, and advanced features like color scanning, storing your contacts on the Web, making fail-safe backups, and offering a contact information updating service.

Imagine all of your business cards in one very powerful system. Need to confirm a meeting? You find the contact's business card on your computer instantly, along with the notes you wrote on the back. Click on the email address, and a pre-addressed email pops up. Click on the street address, and Mapquest gives you directions to your meeting. The real genius of CardScan is how it saves time you didn't even know you were wasting, in ways you didn't know were possible. Let's say you only remember a few letters of an address or phone number. CardScan still finds your contact quickly. It syncs to other contact managers and portable devices, and makes your records Web-accessible. CardScan even keeps your records updated.

CardScan Executive Scanner Features:

• 50% smaller and lighter than previous model, takes less desktop space
• 2-second black-and-white scan, 4-second color scan; scan more cards in less time
• USB powered, 2.0 certified; more portable and convenient
• Sleek new product design, looks great on your desk

CardScan Executive Software Features:

• More intuitive interface is easier to use, more productive
• Improved character recognition means more accurate records
• Faster, easier installer preserves your settings
• Efficient "find duplicates" feature eliminates redundant records
• Enhanced card correction highlights fields it thinks may contain errors

What's in the Box
Scanner, detachable USB cable, software, user's guide, warranty card

Product Description
CardScan Executive is the fastest, most accurate device for scanning the printed information from business cards into the correct fields of a powerfully searchable, highly compatible electronic address book. Over 50 software features like QuickSearch, single-click address mapping, and email addressing help you use that contact information more efficiently. CardScan Executive is highly compatible, automatically syncing to Outlook and every popular contact manager, PDA and smart phone. CardScan Executive even saves your contact information online for secure backup and portability. CardScan Executive is the world leader in card reader technology.PRODUCT FEATURES:Full color business card reader;Scans business cards into your PC;Fastest, most accurate reader available;Syncs with Outlook, ACT!, Notes, Goldmine, and more;Syncs with Palm handhelds, pocket PCs and smart phones;Includes online address book, fail-safe backup and updating service;Portable, USB 2.0 certified. No power supply needed.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

39 of 40 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Scans well - hard to use images afterwards, August 9, 2006

By	Fred, movie fanatic - See all my reviews

I am glad I purchased my Cardscan 700, but there are some significant unfortunate missed opportunities and because of that some important functions cannot be done at all. My impression is that this is the best product on the market, due to its scanning properties, which are quite good. There are some serious deficiencies though in the rest of the software which would be nice to have fixed, and which in some cases render the device somewhat useless, since the output cannot be transferred to a useful place.

PROs: It does a pretty good job of scanning. The algorithm is well developed and is actually quite impressive. Even cards that catch and rotate as they go through, producing a funny smeared image, have some of their contents scanned correctly. The superiority of this recognition software is the strong point of this product. There is also an ok database management product that one can use to maintain and look up cards. Operationally the product is especially nice- I can just sit there feeding cards in and typing carriage return after each one, glancing at the screen to catch errors. The card image is retained in the record in the Cardscan database, which is important.

CONs: 1) the exit path has places that cards can hang up, and they can catch as they go through. This happens fairly often unless the card is new and flat, so part of the operation is to try to prevent that, by straightening out bent corners ahead of time, and by adding a little force keep the card from catching and rotating as one corner goes forward and the other is stuck. Quite needless- if the exit path was smooth and continuous, this wouldn't happen - the problem is in the rear of the plastic case. 2) Although the product retains the image of the business card, there's no way to pass that through to Outlook or export it to any other format. This is very unfortunate. I could laboriously do that by hand by cutting and pasting each one, except that Cardscan software does not permit copy / paste functions on the image. Why not? It's easy to implement. 3) Every time I start the program it harasses me about registering, even though I've been specific that I do not wish to. It also harasses me about logging in the online backup facility even though I've asked it not to do that. It therefore ignores the user wishes. 4) The data exchange function allows only extremely crude export to a file, in a simple text or csv format. There is no way to create an Outlook format .pst file, which would simplify importing, and allow for the future option of including an image. Outlook can hold an image in the comment section of the record, but apparently Cardscan folks aren't even close to thinking about this. 5) If I indicate that a data export for a file is destined for Outlook, the field names are not set up correctly, so unless I do some heavy editing of field names, nothing much other than the contact name gets across. If I export directly to the running Outlook program, it isn't perfect, but it's close enough to be usable. Why did Cardscan get one right and not the other?? In neither case can I send the card image over. 6) I was forced to install Microsoft .NET software even though I intended to do all my exports via files. I didn't get a choice- if I didn't install .NET, the installer stopped and exited without installing any Cardscan software.

21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent for the road warrior sales rep, September 7, 2005

By	David Werble "davidwerble" (Sherman Oaks, CA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I've seen and heard about the CardScan product line for years but never thought to buy one. Well, I started a new sales position a few weeks ago, making 20-30 calls each day. Those business cards pile up quickly but the CardScan fixes that real quick. Well over 95% of the cards I scan in get all the information transitioned to the program (you might have to do a little typing). This can allow you to do many other tasks such as address labels, FranklinQuest address books, letters, e-mails--you get the idea. I bought the more expensive unit that does color but the footprint on my desk is quite small and there's a travel case (free for me) that allows you to take it on the road. *****FIVE STARS *****

20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good for what it is, September 16, 2005

By	R. Brome (Philadelphia, PA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Great product. It does what it says, and does it well. Most cards are scanned and recognized perfectly, including ones with non-white backgrounds and ones printed vertically. The software has almost all the features I could want, like the "find duplicate cards" feature. (Because if you go to the same trade shows and see the same people, chances are you have more than a few duplicates in that pile of cards.)

I do wish the scanner itself was a tad smaller. Or, for the price, I think it should have a feeder so it could scan a stack of cards at once, instead of hand-feeding each one... But it still works well and saves tons of time as it is.