IRISCard Pro Business Card Scanner

by Iris

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 10 x 8 x 3.2 inches ; 7 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B000F7IXX4
• Item model number: USOA307
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes
• Date first available at Amazon.com: June 16, 2006

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

The IRISCard Pro Business Card Scanner is the most popular multilingual business card scanning solution and is ideal for individuals and both large and small companies. By quickly and easily scanning your business cards, the IRISCard Pro can help you keep a record of all important contacts. Convenient and versatile, it synchronizes with Pocket PCs and Palm devices, as well as Outlook and Outlook Express. To help keep you organized, the IRISCard Pro features a one-touch export button so you can send your contacts to your favorite electronic address book after scanning them.

The IRISCard Pro is a multilingual business card scanning solution that is ideal for both large and small companies. View larger.

The system utilizes Cardiris software, the IRISCard organizer tool. View screenshots.

IRISCard works with a variety of email software packages. View screenshots.

Small and Easy to Use
The IRISCard Pro offers reliable and incredibly easy operation. Simply insert your business cards inside the unit, and they will be instantaneously captured into your computer with precision. You can also export or synchronize the data with your electronic address book, so it's a snap to access the exact information you need when you need it. The IRISCard Pro works with a variety of email software packages, including Outlook, Outlook Express, Address Book, Now Contact, and Entourage. It also recognizes cards from up to 56 countries, features eight user-interface languages (English, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, German, Dutch, and Russian), and is USB powered, so it's the ideal travel companion.

Where and When to Use the IRISCard Pro
Compact, light, and portable, the IRISCard Pro comes in handy at home, in the office, or on the road. At home, the IRISCard Pro lets you keep your personal address book always up-to-date. It's also an efficient full-color, USB-powered TWAIN photo scanner that digitizes your 4 x 6 pictures with up to 600 dots per inch (dpi) resolution. And thanks to its ergonomic design, it's much more comfortable to use than regular flatbed scanners. At the office, you can rely on the IRISCard Pro to help minimize disorganized piles of business cards cluttering up your desk. Since this device scans, retypes, and exports your contacts in just seconds, they're instantly available to you rather than scattered all over your workplace. The IRISCard Pro also helps you out when you're away from your home or office. Whether at trade shows, conferences, or other out-of-town events, the IRIS Card Pro is the best tool to quickly store new contacts, and follow up on all your leads. After your trip, you can choose the Album View function, which shows either a multi-card display to quickly visualize scanned cards or a single card display to easily add notes or additional information.

Special Operating Features
The IRISCard Pro uses BCR technology that combines I.R.I.S. OCR and "Field Parsing" technologies for accurate recognition and field matching. The system also utilizes Cardiris, the IRISCard business card recognition software and organizer tool. Thanks to the user-friendly interface and automatic orientation, deskewing, and cropping of the business cards, you'll never have to struggle to get consistent, high-quality results. To rapidly and accurately convert business cards into database records, the IRISCard also offers state-of-the-art field analysis while the zoom function lets you see every detail in each card. Designed for OCR on the fly, this scanner gives you the option to drag and drop names, emails, and websites directly in the right database fields or in any application. Additionally, the Windows version is enhanced with a database and useful sort, search and selection tools to increase your daily contact management

What's in the Box
USOA307 IRISCard business card scanner, USB cable, calibration card for the scanner, software CD-ROM (Cardiris business card organizer software, demo version of Readiris Pro OCR software, GoodContacts), quick installation guide, and registration card and user license.

Product Description

The IRISCard Pro is a full color business card reader powered by IRIS's powerful OCR software. Lightweight and USB powered so you can use it wherever you go, you can quickly scan your business cards with this Twain scanner in color or grayscale, 600 dpi format and then export them into MS Outlook, MS Outlook Express, Address Book, Palm Desktop, CSV or text files. The IRISCard Pro encodes your business cards 30 times faster than manual typing and reaches an accuracy rate up to 100%. The IRISCard Pro is the #1 multilingual business card scanning solution because it will recognize business cards from over 50 countries. Perfect for professionals, freelancers, home users, sales reps and more!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Works great - couple things to know..., January 16, 2007

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B. Bauermeister (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: IRISCard Pro Business Card Scanner (Office Product)

I have a Mac G4 laptop running 10.4.8. From opening the box to having 20 cards well scanned was only about 20 mins. 2 things to be aware of: First, you cannot scan the back of a card (other than making it a separate entry in the database). If you are like me and constantly jot info on the back - you will need to enter that text by hand into the notes field.

Second, it cannot recognize 'reversed' text (white text on a dark back ground). Even very clear, sharp, large text is completely lost. Of my 20 cards, 2 had reversed text, and I had to enter those in by hand.

All in all, the recognition was very very good. Lots of smarts there. The product configured easily and worked as it should. The interface is a bit goofy - but not too bad. I thing this is a good purchase

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars unrealiable - keep looking, September 23, 2006

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Carl "Carl" (Sausalito, CA United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: IRISCard Pro Business Card Scanner (Office Product)

Iris has loads of experience developing OCR software so I'd hoped for something better.

1) The software throws an error message and crashes if the data files are not on your local machine so don't store them on a server. I lost of lot of data that way until I isolated the source of the error. There is nothing in the readme that lists this restriction.

2) The scanner worked for a day (scanned in 150 card) and then just stopped working. No error message from the application, I'd click the scan button, accept the scan dialog box, the box would close, but no scan.

3) Iris only does M-F 9-5 Eastern time tech support.

4) Of the 150 US business cards that I scanned, the software was not able to recognize the business name in about 50% of them. I had to enter it manually. Did not have that many problems with other fields though.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Poor Support - But appears to work, finally, October 23, 2006

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The Reck (South Texas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: IRISCard Pro Business Card Scanner (Office Product)

Scanner came packaged with the wrong software. I did not know this and tried to install the driver multiple times using several tricks. After about 2 hours of fooling with it, I went to their website to get help. Their web help consists of a FAQ guide. None applied to the driver not installing correctly. I emailed their technical support. 24 hours later, no answer. I called the tech support line, left two voice messages. Still no reply. Finally I used the customer service option and got a human. I believe the only human working there. He emailed me a link to the correct software. After 6 hours of downloading, I installed the software and it worked correctly. Today, (1 week later) I received a reply to my original product support request email with the software link attached. Good thing I was not needing this too quickly.

Pro's - Seems to recognize text fairly well. Although scan quality appears to trip it up often. Database supplied seems usuable.

Con's - Poor support. Don't rely on this if you want to use it for trade shows (as I did). You have to click the scan button each time you want to scan a card. No ability to "Train" the software to put text in the fields you want. No custom fields, you are stuck with what they supply. No way to scan both sides of a card and store both images under one card.