NeatReceipts Neat Business Cards Mobile Full Color Card Reader/Scanner

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Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 10 x 7 x 3 inches ; 1 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000R1E4EU
• Item model number: 00124
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #8,931 in Electronics (See Bestsellers in Electronics)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: December 19, 2005

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description
With the NeatReceipts Business Card Scanner you Organize your business cards, simplify your contacts. The next great step in getting the clutter off your desk, and out of your briefcase, with the information safely stored away for when you need it. First there was NeatReceipts to save your valuable paper receipt data (but get rid of all the paper).

Neat Business Cards is extremely compact and portable, weighing less than four ounces--perfect for the road warrior.

Comapct and easy to take with you on the road. View larger.

Neat Business Cards makes it easy to scan all those business cards, categorize, and track contacts on your computer. View larger.

Neat Business Cards also provides a solution for users of ACT!. Without any additional software, you can now scan business cards into your existing contact database. View larger.

Now there's Neat Business Cards. It's one of the most accurate card reader made. Scan your piles of business cards directly into Outlook. Then organize the information on your PC.

It's so small and mobile that you can take it on the road with you tucked in the tiniest pocket of your briefcase or suitcase. The whole scanner weighs less than 4 ounces! That's about a half a sandwich! It's the smallest color card scanner on the market.

Scan and track business card contacts with ease
Neat Business Cards makes it easy to scan all of your business cards into your computer! Categorize, organize and keep track of all your contacts easily, digitally. It installs a button in Outlook and ACT! that lets you scan directly into contact files. You can also scan all your cards into the Neat Business Cards database and export them to csv, Plaxo or create vCards to sync to your handheld device.

Add key information and follow-up to your contact data
Neat Business Cards lets you add notes for each contact so you can remember exactly where you met the contact and what follow-up you’d like to take. You can even attach images or documents to your contacts. Tired of returning home from meetings and trade shows with a stack of business cards? Ready to forget wasting another minute entering contact information into an address book or jamming business cards into your over-crowded Rolodex?

Scan cards directly into Outlook contacts
Neat Business Cards installs a button in your Outlook toolbar that lets you scan business cards directly into Outlook contacts. All information obtained from your business cards such as telephone, e-mail and address are automatically entered in separately, providing you a comprehensive but hassle-free contact companion. You can also add images of business cards to existing contacts.

Bring your contacts on the go
Have a PDA or similar device? Make sure you take advantage of everything Neat Business Cards offers by exporting vCard files to your Treo, Blackberry or similar device. Export vCard files from the Neat Business Cards database that fit easily into your pocket so that no matter where you are, you can recall contacts and keep yourself confident.

This is a terrific item for any business traveler, but is indispensable if you attend conventions and trade shows, if you're in politics or fund-raising, insurance, real estate, consulting, or any situation where you need to keep track of the people you meet to build your business or professional contact base. Included with scanner: software CD (uses Microsoft.Net 2.0 and MS SQL Server Desktop Engine), USB cable, travel case and Quick Start Guide.

Don’t waste another minute typing up business card data!

Neat Business Cards also provides a solution for users of ACT!. Without any additional software, you can now scan business cards into your existing contact database. And forget about the details, Neat Business Cards will handle everything for you and ensure that every contact is entered completely.

• Neat Business Cards installs its card scanning technology in Outlook and ACT! so users can scan directly into contact files – no third party application needed.
• Smallest color card scanner
• Highly accurate card scanning

Key Features

• Scan directly in Outlook
• Scan directly in ACT!
• Scan into Neat Business Cards database
• Use vCard, csv or Plaxo to export contact information to smartphones and other email applications
• Highly accurate card reader for US Cards
• Color scanning at 300 dpi
• Free travel case

What's in the box
Neat Business Cards portable card scanner, software CD, USB cable, scanner travel case, user guide, one piece of calibration paper, one piece of cleaning paper

Product Description
The next great step in getting the clutter off your desk, and out of your briefcase, with the information safely stored away for when you need it. First there was NeatReceipts to save your valuable paper receipt data (but get rid of all the paper!). Now there's Neat Business Cards. It's the most accurate card reader made. Scan your piles of business cards directly into Outlook. Then organize the information on your PC. And it's so small and mobile that you can take it on the road with you tucked in the tiniest pocket of your briefcase or suitcase. The whole scanner weighs less than 4 ounces! That's about a half a sandwich! It's the smallest color card scanner on the market. This is the best tool around to help you organize business cards. The patented software reads information directly from business cards, and organizes the data electronically. Plus, with your purchase, we include a full version of the #1 contact management software, ACT 9.0, right in the box. You can scan business cards directly into Outlook or Act, or scan into Neat Business Cards and export to VCard, Excel, PDF or Plaxo formats. This is a terrific item for any business traveler, but is indispensible if you attend conventions and trade shows, if you're in politics or fund-raising, insurance, real estate, consulting, or any situation where you need to keep track of the people you meet to build your business or professional contact base. Included with scanner: software CD (uses Microsoft.Net 2.0 and MS SQL Server Desktop Engine), USB cable, travel case and Quick Start Guide.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Best one I've tried, January 7, 2008

By	T. MCCASLAND (Houston, TX) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Out of all the business card scanners I have tried, including the ones that friends and associates use, the neat business card bundle is the best. The character recognition is very good, but it has some trouble with really small characters. Sometimes I have to scan a card a few times to get it centered correctly, even after cleaning the unit. All in all this is a great product and one that I recommend to anyone who collects alot of business cards.

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Trade show necessity, April 10, 2008

By	nssf "nssf" (San Francisco, CA) - See all my reviews

I used to have drawers full of business cards when I came back from CES and other trade shows that I go to every year. I would have to sort through them and try to find names and numbers. I never got around to putting them into a physical file, and really, it was just a mess. This is a terrific solution to that mess. I simply drop cards into the scanner, which doesn't take up much space on my desk, and they're into my database. I love that I can make notes on each, so I can remember where I met people and what we talked about. Works just like it said it would.

20 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Hidden support for Windows XP SP3, June 5, 2008

By	MIT Guy (Boston MA) - See all my reviews

The installation CD will not work on Windows XP SP3. An installer is available for download but it is difficult to locate on the support web site. Let me save you some time: it is available in the support article for the NeatReceipts product and its support of SP3. Towards the end of the article will be a link for a Neat Business Cards installer. Tech support was not terribly helpful. Scanning directly into Outlook is far more convenient than the way CardScan works but the field assignment logic does not seem as intelligent.