CardScan Personal Business Card Scanner

by CardScan

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0002Z5Y40
• Item model number: CSP-A01070-ENG
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (29 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
  • #56 in Electronics > Computers & Add-Ons > Scanners
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 7, 2004

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description The affordable, capable business card reader
The CardScan Personal is a highly portable, convenient business card reader for users with basic contact management and lighter card scanning requirements. Use it to quickly and accurately turn business cards into sortable, searchable records on your computer, PDA, or smart phone.

Like the more powerful CardScan Executive, CardScan Personal allows you to capture cards to your computer in seconds without typing. Sort and search contacts instantly, get a map to an address, create a mailing, even sync to your PDA or smart phone.

• Makes your time more productive: In seconds, CardScan enters more cards, more accurately, than you could type in hours
• Compatible with the way you work today: Synchronize with Palm Desktop, Outlook Express version 5.0 or later, Microsoft Outlook, Palm OS, smart phones, and Windows Mobile devices
• Securely backup and store your contacts online: Access your database from any Internet-connected computer with CardScan.net.
• About the software: Works with Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express, Palm Desktop, Palm handhelds, smart phones, Pocket PCs, more. Also includes 90-day trial of address book back-up and online access (CardScan.net) and 90-day trial of automatic contact updating (AccuCard service)
• About the scanner: Four to five second monochrome scan speed, USB powered, attached USB, 4 1/2" x 3 1/4" x 1 1/4", weighs only seven ounces

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

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Product Description

The CardScan Personal is a highly portable, convenient business card reader for users with basic contact management and lighter card scanning requirements. Use it to quickly and accurately turn business cards into sortable, searchable records on your computer, PDA, or smart phone.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Works very well with minor problems when synchronizing with Outlook 2003, September 18, 2005

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Lorenzo Ridolfi (Rio de Janeiro, RJ BRAZIL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: CardScan Personal Business Card Scanner (Office Product)

CardScan works very well, its OCR software is almost perfect with less than 5% errors, easily corrected in a few keystrokes.
I don't give 5 stars only because CardScan has minor bugs when synchronizing with Outlook 2003. You must close Outlook 2003 to avoid a weird error message. Unfortunately, there's no help in the manual or in the company website.

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very Helpful and Easy to Install, November 16, 2005

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C. P. Bacon (Palm Harbor, FL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: CardScan Personal Business Card Scanner (Office Product)

I've scanned over 600 cards now and it's been very easy. The included software is user friendly. The scanner itself seems to recognize text well, but it has a hard time with small fonts and cards with dark backgrounds. Additionally, it can't recognize phrases if they aren't perfectly horizontal or vertical. Correcting missed phrases is easy to handle in the software during the verification step. Using the software's export wizard has been a bit of a trial, but now that I've determined the right settings it's been great. Overall, an amazing little scanner and it has been super helpful for my business.

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars CardScan Personal Edition works fairly well, October 2, 2005

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D. J. Blake - See all my reviews
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This review is from: CardScan Personal Business Card Scanner (Office Product)

Overall, this product has made life easier although it is not perfect. I like how the product sychronizes with Outlook. It also has some nice features such as linking to mapquest. Complaints include optical character recognition works perfectly about 60 percent of the time. I ususally have to make some minor modifications to the other 40-percent. When it does work, it usually does a great job of putting the proper information in the right fields. My expectations are likely high for this type of technology. It also seems to have problems with thicker cards and cards with raised or thick printing that tend to hang up in the reader. This problem has led to smudges on the reader that are next to impossible to clean off given the enclosed design.

Overall though, it beats having to enter information manually and I do not regret buying the product. If you have lots of cards, this beats the rolodex anyday!