IRISCard Mini Card Scanner (Silver)

by Iris

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 3.2 x 8 inches ; 3 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000F7EV26
• Item model number: USOA309
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes
• Date first available at Amazon.com: April 21, 2006

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description The IRISCard Mini Card Scanner is a robust and affordable business card scanning solution that's ideal for both individuals and small companies. By quickly and easily scanning business cards , the IRISCard 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 also features a one-touch export button so you can send your contacts to your favorite electronic address book after scanning them.

The Mini Card scanner is a robust, affordable way to quickly and easily scan business cards and record important information. View larger.

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

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

Small and Easy to Use
The IRISCard 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 works with a variety of email software packages, like 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
Compact, light, and portable, the IRISCard comes in handy at home, in the office, or on the road. At home, the IRISCard lets you keep your personal address book always up-to-date. It's also an efficient 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, the IRISCard is much more comfortable to use than regular flatbed scanners. At the office, you can rely on the IRISCard 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 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 is the best tool to quickly store new contacts, so you can follow up on all your leads.

Special Operating Features
The IRISCard 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 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.

What's in the Box
USOA309 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 Mini is the smallest business card reader ever released, lightweight and USB powered so you can use it wherever you go. You can quickly scan your business cards with this Twain scanner in grayscale, 600 dpi format and then export them into MS Outlook, MS Outlook Express, Address Book, Palm Desktop, CSV or text files. The IRISCard Mini encodes your business cards 30 times faster than manual typing and reaches an accuracy rate up to 100%. The IRISCard Mini is the #1 multilingual business card scanning solution because it recognizes business cards from over 50 countries. Perfect for professionals, freelancers, home users, sales reps and more!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A little costly, but fairly effective, December 17, 2006

By	Jackson Clear (San Francisco, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: IRISCard Mini Card Scanner (Silver) (Electronics)

I felt the previous review was a little too harsh and does not do this product justice for it's most effective use: namely, business card scanning. I'm a mac computer consultant and I recently set this up for a client who gets a large volume of business cards. While it doesn't get all information from every single card, it's still a huge time saver relative to manually inputing this information. I'm impressed enough that I'm looking to get this for myself right away.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good for Mac, January 5, 2007

By	G. APARICIO URIARTE "scifi/action reviewer" (PTY, Panama) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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This review is from: IRISCard Mini Card Scanner (Silver) (Electronics)

Nice card scanner for the price paid. Works very good with Mac, but the recognition software and export feature could be better. Recomended.

2.0 out of 5 stars Works Great out of the box. Next time, not so much, January 11, 2010

By	Robert V. Welch "Airplane_Reader" (Atlanta GA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: IRISCard Mini Card Scanner (Silver) (Electronics)

This would be a great product, except...
First, I like the compact size. It is small enough and sturdy enough to fit in a briefcase. Handy for the type of person constantly collecting business cards. It does use USB A on both sides of the USB cable, so you are stuck having to carry yet another cable with you all the time.
It requires a special (flimsy) calibration card upon every new session, so make sure you keep that card in your pack of cards.

Here's what prompts me to write my review - The reader worked well when I took it out of the box. I was stunned at how it was able to correctly determine what text belonged in what field, and how easy it was to import the information to any contact database.

I got halfway through my stack of cards to enter. If only I had finished in one sitting. Something has happened to the feed mechanism. The motor still makes noise when I insert a card, but the card will not feed. nearly $100 for a one time use card reader seems extremely expensive.
I'm half a week through trying to get support from the manufacturer, and if nothing happens by the end of the day, I'll be returning this product to the retail vendor I purchased it from.

Had great potential, but is non-functional less than 24 hours after first use.