IRIS Business Card Reader II for Macintosh (USOA180)

by Iris

Product Details

• Item Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0002OKAE0
• Item model number: USOA180
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 19, 2004

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

The IRIS Business Card Reader II is the perfect tool to scan and automatically encode your business cards into your favorite contact manager. It's very easy, fast, and accurate. You'll never retype a business card again! Select the country of your business card. Drop the card into the scanner: it is automatically scanned, recognized and encoded.

Features:

• Scan your business cards and update your contacts.
• Direct Export to Address Book, Entourage, Now Contact, and more.
• Recognizes business cards from up to 53 countries.
• Scans and displays your business cards in color.

What's in the Box
Card reader, power cable, user guide, software and download information, warranty information

Product Description

I.R.I.S. Business Card Reader II for Mac - Even in today's Digital Age, business cards are still a great way to quickly distribute all of your contact information. However, being in the Digital Age means we have still get that information into our computers and PDAs. And that's where the I.R.I.S. Business Card Reader comes in. Simply insert the business card, and it will scan the data into your contact management database. Never again will you have to sit for hours typing away after big meetings and conventions! Color Scanning - scans business cards and photos in color, grayscale, or black and white Free Tech Support! Connects via USB Requires an Apple Macintosh with at least a PowerPC processor, 32MB of RAM, USB Port, 80MB of hard drive space and MacOS 9.x

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Avoid this product, April 21, 2006

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J. Moledina "consumer avenger" (San Francisco, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: IRIS Business Card Reader II for Macintosh (USOA180) (Office Product)

The card reading ability of the device is worse than the rational customer might expect. The error rate I experienced was around 35%. I had scanned 30 cards, wasting time correcting data, and then the program crashed. In OSX. I hardly ever see a program crash. But here's the kicker: it didn't save the work at any point. In fact, there was no save funtion I could find easily, just export. I returned it right away, and ordered the CardScan Executive, which I run under Windows XP in Boot Camp. While it costs twice as much, its error rate is much more forgivable, at about 10%, with about 25% perfect scans/reads so far. Plus, the automatic saving and free online card data storage and synching are beyond my expectations. You get what you pay for.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Horrible. DO NOT BUY., April 23, 2008

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James Lucier (Arlington, VA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: IRIS Business Card Reader II for Macintosh (USOA180) (Office Product)

This product does not work. Do not buy it. Everything about it is bad. Horrible user interface. Badly designed scanning unit. Unreliable OCR. Incomprehensible documentation. Software doesn't even boot on Leopard unless you email tech support and ask for a patch. Don't waste time on this. Instead, email Corex and ask them when their Cardscan product will be available for Mac.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Sh..ty Product... Terrible Customer Support, August 17, 2008

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Shaktissimo (San Clemente, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: IRIS Business Card Reader II for Macintosh (USOA180) (Office Product)

This product should be a textbook case-study for a product gone wrong. First, it didn't work. Fair enough... my mistake. Secondly, I called their "support" in Florida, who had me download some useless link four times. Same result. Then, they stopped returning my calls.

OK....

So, then I called BELGIUM, where this little piece of s..t is actually made (had to get up at 6AM to do this, by the way, because of the time difference). Some Belgian girl kept me on hold for about 45 minutes, before telling me that I really needed to talk to their office in Florida.

I hope this company meets Carl Icahn real soon!

PS: I only gave it one star because I couldn't send the review with no stars.