CardScan Executive Card Scanner (Mac)

by CardScan

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.5 x 2.5 inches ; 14.4 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B001FB54P4
• Item model number: 1750381
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Bestsellers Rank

  #17 in	Electronics > Camera & Photo > Printers & Scanners > Flatbed
  #62 in	Electronics > Computers & Accessories > Scanners

• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 15, 2008

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description The CardScan Executive for Mac User Interface and Business Card Scanner make it easy to capture and manage your valuable contact information. Featuring software designed from the ground up to work with features of the Mac Leopard OS, this system lets you consolidate contact information from business cards and electronic documents, including email signatures and web sites. In addition, this scanner makes it easy to sync contacts in your Address book, iPod, and iPhone to meet your on-the-go needs.

CardScan Executive for Mac: Scans up to 20 business cards a minute Captures contact info from email signatures and vCards Synchs with Address Book, iPhones, and iPods Exports data to Entourage and other software

The easy-to-navigate UI was designed to maximize existing features of your Mac. View larger.

True drag-and-drop ease makes capturing digital contact information simple. View larger.

With its slim, elegant design the scanner fits neatly in your workstation. View larger.

Capture Contact Information
The CardScan Executive scanner can scan up to 20 business cards a minute in color. Known for fast, accurate performance, the scanner works with native Mac software to help you convert the data on business cards into a digital form that's easy to use.

You can also use the CardScan software to consolidate contact information from electronic sources, including web sites and email signatures. With drag-and-drop performance, the CardScan makes creating a complete contact record as easy as highlighting the contact data you want, dragging it over the list area of the CardScan window, and releasing.

Designed to work with Mac OS 10.5.3+ (Leopard), the new easy-to-use CardScan interface combines Mac-specific design with many of the functions that have made CardScan for Windows an award-winning choice for business professionals. Updated CardScan sofware for Windows is also included in the Executive package, so you can be sure you'll have access to the version that meets your needs.

Manage Contacts With Ease
Once your contacts are entered in the CardScan software, you can assign single or multiple customizable categories to each one. This makes it easy to sort contacts, view them in groups, and prepare lists of contacts for email or direct mail. Plus with the easy-to-use Print Wizard, creating custom envelopes, labels, and more is hassle-free. All this means that outreach projects get done faster and are easier to keep track of.

Using the "Batch Scan" feature to scan a whole stack of business cards at once lets you quickly assign several cards the same category or notes, saving you time. And when you can't remember someone's name, but you know what their business card looks like, the image view feature lets you fan through color images of all your scanned business cards.

Stay in Sync on the Move
Keep your contact list up-to-date across the applications and mobile devices that you use on a daily basis. Since CardScan can be set up to sync automatically with Mac's Address Book, it's easy to keep the contact lists in your iPhone, iPod, and MobileMe network in synch, too. It's equally easy to export information as vCards (electronic business cards) to other software, including Microsoft Entourage.

All CardScan products offer a risk-free 30-day trial. And all new CardScan Executive systems include software for both Windows and Mac OS.

What's in the Box
Color business card scanner, software for Mac OS and Windows.

Product Description

Consolidate all your contact data; accurately scan business cards, drag-and-drop from email signatures, sync to Address Book and easily print to a range of templates. CardScan Executive for Mac makes it easy to capture, organize and manage all your contact data. Featuring the most accurate leading business card scanner, read cards at up to 20 per minute. Capture complete contact information from email signatures in one step. Categorize your contacts in multiple ways to create custom lists and views and see scanned business cards with image view. Email and map contact addresses directly from CardScan and easily print to envelopes, labels and more. Automatically sync to Address Book or export as needed, including in vCard format. From the trusted company that’s been leading business card scanning for over 14 years, CardScan Executive for Mac was designed from the ground up to work on Leopard, making it easy to capture and manage your contact information.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Works for me, flawlessly!, October 25, 2008

By	J. R. Lebowitz "a reader" (upstate ny) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: CardScan Executive Card Scanner (Mac) (Electronics)

Fortunately, I was eligible for a $179 competitive upgrade direct from the manufacturer for an old CardScan Windows brick I found down in my basement in the box of orphaned peripherals. I had loved CardScan back in my Windows days, but had lost hope that they would come out with a Mac version. In the meantime, I had struggled with the kludgey I.R.I.S. business card scanner for mac and its flakey crapware that really didn't integrate with Mac Address Book all that well and had a horrible OCR recognition error rate and field parsing engine and seemed to run like it was written in Javascript.

Well, I'm happy that the Mac version of CardScan works flawlessly for me with a typical Mac setup (an Intel Mac Book Pro running 10.5.5.) and that setup was a snap. With some trepidation, I synched with my Address Book and no precious contact data was lost or damaged. I then scanned some business cards and it parsed the various fields with almost 100% accuracy, including some tricky company names in graphic logos, and put the data in a suggested "inspector" window. One click to verify (or change any fields with a linked zoom to the card pane view) and the new card data is in the CardScan database and then synched with your mac Address Book.

Couldn't be easier! Very satisfied user! While I'm not a frequent Amazon reviewer or any kind of computer expert, I wanted to post a counter review to the two negative reviews recently posted. While individual products and installations can sometimes be flaky and your mileage may vary, I found this CardScan product to be as good as I remember the Windows version being and better, because everything's better on a Mac (including Address Book being better than the fugly Outlook ecosystem).

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Application crashed! very disappointed!, October 7, 2008

By	M. Philippe NIEUWBOURG (Bois Colombes, France) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: CardScan Executive Card Scanner (Mac) (Electronics)

I just bought the Mac version of Cardscan Executive. I was happy that a Mac version have been released. Unfortunately after a long day of trial and search for information... no way... Each time I launch the application it crashed!
Be very carefull before buying this product. I'm not sure it works on Mac. And technical support on Mac is unreachable... Cardscan support web site is dedicated to Windows users !

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent organizing tool. You'll love it., February 19, 2009

By	Pamela Oland (L.A.) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: CardScan Executive Card Scanner (Mac) (Electronics)

CardScan Executive for Mac Card ScannerI go to so many Music Industry events, and constantly am being given dozens of business cards. I've been terrible at follow-up. My prior system was no system at all. I tried keeping them in a folder of plastic card sheets - but after a time, alphabetizing became impossible, and I couldn't always place who someone was or where I'd met them. I tried entering them in my MAC address book, but it was time consuming, and these multitudes of cards got mixed in with my close friends and associates. So Executive Card Scan for Mac was the best ever solution. I scan a card, it takes a couple seconds, I check to make sure it has picked up all the info. (Most normally printed cards scan perfectly, but hand painted designs such as my own cards don't scan properly). I then correct any info if necessary, and then I have a great space to write in any comments or notations, such as where and when I met someone. I can also email (it connects to Outlook) straight from the site. I can click next to an address and connect to a Google map of how to get there. And I can keep full records on further contact with the individual whose card it is. I can arrange all my contacts in personal or job categories too. All in all, this product was money well spent. Pamela Phillips Oland