Customer Reviews

Genius ColorPage BR600 Portable Business Card Scanner

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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.

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.

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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.

I do a lot of networking. If business cards were money, I could sell my company and retire. I bought this little gizmo thinking I'll automate the tedious process of scanning the cards and having to cut and paste the text.

I was happy when I got my business card reader, happy like a child opening a Christmas day gift. I plugged in my scanner and started to streamline the networking "process". "Santa was good to me," I thought as I scanned card after card. After a few weeks, strange and unexpected things began to happen. The reader would work sometimes and sometimes it would not. One day, it simply stopped working period....just like that <snapping fingers>

CONS:

* only Black & white (why COLOR in the name???)
* recognition of business cards is low (lots of manual editing)
* no management of double sided cards
* does not come with instructions on how to download Win 7 drivers (corporate web site very misleading ie US, Taiwan, Europe, etc)
* challenge to install the proper Win 7 driver once found (however not impossible)


PROS:

* very small
* comes with a nice pouch
* CardIris 3 included (pretty good software)
* very unexpensive (but do you really need a cheap product which does not the job?
* easy return with Amazon.com (lost some money in the shipping back to them though)


If you are looking for a great Business Card Scanner, get what I got, ie a PenPower WorldCard Color. a bit more money, but 90% excellent, a big difference.

Have fun!

RedFormula1

for the price it is ok, need to help the scanner move the cards when they are not the standard thickness

I needed a business card scanner but it was not worth $200 plus to me to get rid of the pile of business cards in the desk drawer.

The Genius scanner was the answer. It works great and 95% of the cards were totally correct on the first pass. It was quick and easy. I was able to export the data to Outlook and to synchronize after adding more files. The Cardscan software keeps all the data including the images of the cards so you can go back and look at a card later. It can also link to ACT!.

It is great to take on the road as it comes with a small carrying case to hold the scanner and USB cable.

The price is low because it has an older version of the IRIS Cardscan software. You can upgrade if you want later.

It really is a Genius decision to buy one of these!

I needed an inexpensive way to get a 300 dpi line scanner. This filled the requirements perfectly. Out of the box I found that the software provided was very limited and that the Twain driver was not universal.

Name is "ColorPage-BR600" implying color scanning and I thought it scanned in color, but I cannot get anything in color from this scanner, Also I cannot find support for this product! No documentation to help. Scan is very poor; I am warning you check before you buy, this must be the worst purchase I ever made from Amazon.com. Price is cheap but so is the result, I have wasted too much time. Amazon just lost me as a customer!

Good scanner and software, but this name "Color Page-BR600" is very misleading, I thought that color scanner. The shipment was on time.