Corex CardScan Executive with Version 5.0 Software

by CardScan

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 5 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00003Q090
• Item model number: CSA03950CD
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 4, 1999

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

The Corex CardScan Executive 500 is an ingenious device designed to help you organize all the business cards you acquire into an easy-to-use contact database. Simply stick a business card into the scanner, and the CardScan 500's OCR technology extracts such information as names, e-mail addresses, and company, placing them into your contact manager for easy reference.

The CardScan 500 integrates nicely with ACT, GoldMine, Groupwise, Lotus Notes, Lotus Organizer, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Schedule, Sidekick, and other popular programs, while also providing one-touch synchronization with Windows CE and Palm handheld devices. A PC-only device, the CardScan connects to your computer via USB or parallel ports, and can even connect to your digital phone with separately sold Fonesync software and cable.

The CardScan 500 comes backed with a one-year manufacturer's warranty.

Product Description

CardScan Executive ( v. 8 ) - complete package - 1 user - Win - English

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

46 of 47 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great concept, great software, useful scanner, February 4, 2001

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"mila7" (Kuwait) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Corex CardScan Executive with Version 5.0 Software (Office Product)

I was originally very excited about this product and purchased two, one for myself and one for my brother. The CardScan will enable you to scan most of your business cards and save them in your system, thus having it all at your fingertips. The software is great, allowing you to assign categories to all the contacts, to search for contacts in various ways, and allowing export/import/transfer of data to and from PIMs, utility programs and even to PDAs. I use Outlook at work but I find the CardScan software to be more powerful for contact management.

The scanner works well most of the time. With the Auto Scan feature you can set your cards down and, if all goes right, come back later to verify the information. Cards are rapidly read and the images stored until you verify the accurate placement of the card information into the software fields.

This leads me to one of the major problems with the CardScan. Understandably it's difficult to account for all business card formats, with the contact info. being placed in all possible ways. Corex has not fully figured out how to ensure placement of the card info. into the software fields. Only about 50% of the time was most of the info. properly placed. Otherwise you'll have to go through and cut and paste into the correct fields.

The CardScan does not always cleanly scan the business cards. The software is designed to allow you to compare the scanned image of the card to the fields to which the info. was assigned. Good idea but doesn't work so well. To verify that the card was read properly, you'll have to keep your scanned cards with you. Of course, once it's verified you can put the cards away for good.

Two great features of the CardScan: (1) it allows you to scan the back of the business card and (2) you can make your own entries for those cards that are too difficult to read.

35 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Real Time-Saver, December 21, 1999

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Scott A Weishaar (Ohio) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Corex CardScan Executive with Version 5.0 Software (Office Product)

We are a medium-sized manufacturer growing into the world-wide marketplace. The CardScan allows our central staff to maintain and update current and new customers or prospects. Through Outlook, we keep our field sales team updated and current. We save 80 to 85% the time spent maunually entering the data and have not experienced any difficulties synchonizing with our Palm Pilots. Good business investment.

25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars OK, but pricey, May 19, 2000

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Fidel, MD (Saving Lives, everywhere) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Corex CardScan Executive with Version 5.0 Software (Office Product)

If you have a box full of business cards that you'd like to get transfered to a computer, this is pretty good. It does a very good job of reading cards, figuring out what is what, even picking up email addresses, etc. The OCR even does a respectable job on handwriting.

Other reviewers have complained about the software - I use the built in export to the Palm desktop software and it works great!