Genius ColorPage BR600 Portable Business Card Scanner

by Genius

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7 x 3 inches ; 1 pounds
• 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: B000FJ9N54
• Item model number: CP-BR600
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: December 10, 2006

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

The Genius ColorPage-BR600 Portable Business Card Scanner is the ultimate portable business card scanner. The Genius ColorPage-BR600 recognizes business cards from 50 nations, and features automatic orientation, de-skewing, cropping, and optical character reading (OCR) after scan that turns the business card information into editable text. Powered by a USB cable, the CP-BR600 connects directly to the Internet. All you have to do is click on an e-mail or web site address from your electronic address book to go directly to the information you need. Powerful database export capabilities include HTML, Lotus Notes, Outlook Express, Outlook, GoldMine, Palm Desktop, ACT!, text and card.

Unique Drag And Drop Technology
The Genius ColorPage BR-600 makes life easy with its unique drag and drop technology. All you have to do is drag a selected zone from your card, and then drop it to the correct database field. And you can even synchronize with your PDA. The Genius ColorPageBR600 portable business card scanner works with Windows in English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, and Dutch. It comes complete with a pouch for easy portability.

What's in the Box
ColorPage-BR600 portable business card scanner, USB 1.1 cable, software CD, multilingual quick installation guide, calibration sheet, and cleaning paper.

Product Description

The Genius ColorPage-BR600 recognizes business cards from 50 nations, and features automatic orientation, de-skewing, cropping, and OCR after scan. Powered by a USB cable, the CP-BR600 connects directly to the Internet. All you have to do is click on e-mail and the website address from your electronic address book. Powerful data base export capabilities include HTML, Lotus Notes, Outlook Express, Outlook, GoldMine, Palm Desktop, ACT! Text and card.

The Genius ColorPage BR-600 makes life easy with its unique drag and drop technology. All you have to do is drag a selected zone from your card, and then drop it to the correct database field. And you can even synchronize with your PDA and personal manager (please see complete details below). The Genius ColorPageBR600 portable business card scanner works with Windows in English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, and Dutch. Comes complete with pouch for easy portability. Includes USB 1.1 cable, software CD, multilingual quick installation guide, calibration sheet, and clean paper.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

24 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Performs like an inexpensive scanner, October 17, 2007

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T. Dechalus (Georgia, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Genius ColorPage BR600 Portable Business Card Scanner (Office Product)

Unfortunate for this scanner, I own a Cardscan 700c which does a great job at scanning business cards and has very slick software which builds the contact list, imports or exports contacts from/to popular programs, creates entries that have the front and back of the cards, has drag and drop functionality, and more.

I purchased this Genius ColorPage BR600 as a gift for my better half who recently became a Real estate agent. Of course, she has seen my Cardscan in action in the past. Her comment about this Genius scanner was "you could tell its a lower priced and inexpensive scanner. If the print on the card is in anyway faint, this scanner will not pick it up". Also, she has business cards that have black backgrounds with white text (business cards of the agents where she works). This scanner can not scan and OCR them, but the Cardscan scanner does well with these cards.

If cost is the most important thing to you, then this is a good product. But if you are looking for a scanner which can scan almost anything you give it, you should spend more and get a Cardscan product.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Just what I wanted, September 28, 2009

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Jamie M. Lindsley (Menlo Park,CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Genius ColorPage BR600 Portable Business Card Scanner (Office Product)

I have been looking for a card scanner for home> I get a few cards from time to time and always wished they were in my Outlook contacts. I hated to spend too much on one due to the limited ammount I will use it. I saw this one on E-Bay first and decided to Google it for reviews and what not and found that it was cheaper on Amazon. It works just as it shoudl and the numbers go right into Outlook.

Thanks

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Less than basic, May 24, 2009

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Tech Writer "Barbara" (Silicon Valley, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Genius ColorPage BR600 Portable Business Card Scanner (Office Product)

At $30, this biz card reader was inexpensive enough (compared to other card readers) that I decided to buy it to see what it can do before making a larger investment in another reader. It's barely worth the $30, however, because it's below basic. That is, it reads almost no font other than Ariel or Times Roman-type fonts. With fancy fonts, forget it. You must type the info into the fields. The name "ColorPage" is truly misleading because this thing won't read most cards that are anything but white or very light colors, such as beige. If it's color, it can't read it (so the name really irritates me). If the card is laid out length-wise rather than the standard way, the reader often gets confuses and can't read it properly, forcing you to type the info. A major problem is if the card has any handwriting at all on it (such as many that I must process because people add personal email addresses, etc.), the reader can't handle this and gives you Greek. So, you end up typing in the info. Last, you cannot add any fields to what's provided, which are insufficient. So it misses additional info that must be handled manually in your database program or wherever else.

SUMMARY: If you have many standard, light-colored biz cards to process, this unit will do the job at the very basic level and save you some time. All other cards you must handle manually.