Customer Reviews

CardScan Personal Business Card Scanner

5 star:		(11)
4 star:		(7)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(10)

 

 

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.

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.

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!

Organized my business cards (over 800) in one morning. Some verification is necessary from odd cards but otherwise it was a breeze.

It wouldn't work on my Windows 7 64 bit pretty standard system. Windows will not auto load the driver. No 64 bit drivers for this unit appear to be available on their web site. They do say that it is incompatible with Office 2010 64 bit.

It was a waste of money for me. Avoid.

The product is awful. I was unable to install the software on any of my three computers. Not only does it not work with 64-bit, it doesn't seem to be able to handle newer computers. I sent it back after trying for 3 hours to install something that should be intuitive.

A bad start - I opened the shipping box to find the scanner and software CD loose in the box, i.e. the scanner was not boxed or wrapped in any way (as I'd expect if bought off-the-shelf from Staples, etc .). There were no instructions either.

Worse - I'm use Windows 7. I discovered that the scanner is incompatible with Windows 7.

Result - I'm sending it back. Too bad as I accumulate hundreds of business cards a year and this would be a neat solution to getting them into my Outlook Contact database.

Amazing product, I scanned more than five hundred business cards in 3 hours, at least 95% of them without any mistake when transfering the card's information to the software.

I am actually very impressed with the ability of this scanner to accurately scan a wide range of business card formats and input the individual data into the correct entry's.

This product is not compatible with Windows 7 and Mac. Wish that was clearly stated on amazon.com. Waste of my time to try to install it and search all over for the updated software only to be told that it is not compatible and I have to return it and exchange for a product that costs $160!