Best Business Card Scanners
The Xerox DocuMate 3125 color desktop scanner quickly converts your documents, plastic cards and forms into digital files, then securely saves them on your computer or in the cloud ready to be accessed another day when needed. Create searchable PDF files to make it easy to find scanned documents.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I own 2 and use it on a local network."
"Takes up little space and trays can be closed easily when not in use - this takes up even less space and helps to keep clean."
"Best desktop scanner I have ever had."
"Good to use in a small business."
"This is our third scanner."
"Worked OK for a while."
Scans and recognizes business cards, then saves contact information into Address Book or Microsoft Outlook; turns business cards into accurate digital format in a few seconds. Scan, recognize, and save contact information directly turn business cards into accurate digital format in a few seconds. Manage business cards efficiently.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Install the provided software (and activate it), plug in the scanner, calibrate it, and start scanning your cards. My Background: I am a data consultant and work with large volumes of vendor invoices (up to hundreds of thousands for some projects) and run Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to turn the images into text-searchable documents. It's not always the software's fault, more often than not, it's poor quality images that are difficult to interpret (O's and zeros often mixed up, etc.). Because of this, I knew going into this purchase that unless the business card was white, contained no images, and used a very basic font that it would likely have some errors. While I may have to make some corrections every now and then, it still saves me a significant amount of time versus inputting the business card manually."
"It's not perfect, but it reads cards better and is more user friendly than any of the other card scanners that I have used before. In comparison we ordered the top rated Dymo card scanner first, and it wasn't compatible with my bosses Mac, and after contacting Dymo's customer service (which was really hard to reach) he was told the software implants a "hidden file" that makes redownloading the software impossible."
"I accumulated over 300 business cards and this did the job far better than the CardCam app on my iphone ever could. The scanner scans images in black and white and the more exotic cards with colorful backgrounds or odd shaped logos will end up needed special care after the scanning is completed. As with many optical character recognition (OCR) software, there is almost always a degree of guesswork when scanning certain fonts. Not a big deal breaker, but when doing large batch scans, it can add a level of inconvenience. If the image is curved after the scan, phone numbers and other contact information may be affected. The software is well designed for identifying these problems and made resolving them very easy."
"Thank you for such a wonderful item....I made some pretty great points with my better half.....he so deserves great tools for his business and this is truly one of them!"
"I also love that it copies the business card so I can always take a look at the card in case it copied the wrong number or letter."
Scan data from business cards directly into your PC, Mac, or Palm or Windows mobile device.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"However, after around 60 minutes spent on their website, only to be told "product key invalid", or "please only enter numbers and hyphens" (The product key provided is a mix of numbers, letters and hyphens) I was frustrated at every turn and was not able to download the software. However, every time I close the product and re-open it again I am told that the product in unregistered, and I must reinput my product key, watch the software hang again, and then click "later" to get through to use the software. Although the response was again quick, it seems that the agent had not read my email: they once again directed me to a link to download the software. He explained that there was a problem with the software on the CD and that I needed to remove the software and install the version that they had sent me a link to. However, another link led to a file which I could unzip, and once it was installed I was able to register the software with my product key. However, I would like to ask Dymo to fix the following if they want 5 stars: 1: Fix the website so that users can download the correct software! 2: On your support emails concerning this issue, explicitly state that the DVD that comes with the scanner contains faulty software and needs to be replaced with the downloaded file. 3: Get a page on your website/high in the google rankings explaining the issue with the DVD!"
"Nowhere on the Dymo website is there a link to download the needed software!"
"I was extremely disappointed to discover after my purchase that this unit does not support Outlook 2013."
"Big time saver when it worked....and even when it didn't, it often was just one "field" or another which didn't get copied correctly or completely and it was easy enough to correct the mistake and then "save" the entire card's data."
"This should be removed from Amazon , it is being misrepresented and Dymo is not being honest regarding the error ."
"The worse card scanner I have ever used and I use them all the time for work."
"The product is advertised as compatible with Apple OS X, but through a time intensive process of tracking down other users, have come to learn that this only works on OS X 10.7 and earlier."
Best Document Scanners
Style: iX500 ScanSnap (PA03656-B305). Intelligent scan correction performs a quick quality check on your scans - features include auto color detection, auto rotation for upside down documents, and blank page removal.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"It didn't eat any pages (of really soft paper, not regular paper), it didn't skip any pages, and the auto-detect for black-and-white versus color and blank-pages is ridiculously helpful. It even had no problem sucking in very hard paper (like a cover) and then right back to soft paper of a different size! It needs another flip-up lip to catch the paper as it comes out, otherwise it starts to pop off and dump on the desk."
"They cut down on paper considerably, as we scan documents brought in by clients and hand them back to the clients. These scanners save on filing time, which saves money and tedium for my employees, and they save money on file cabinets and floor space. The documents scan to pdf and are then easily stored in electronic files (backed up in a dual core hard drive onsite and in cloud storage offsite)."
"When you scan as much as we do, little annoyances become a big deal. I like how the one-touch scan button understands when I want to begin a scan and resume a scan. The eject button and fold out top is designed well enough that it's easy to gently blow out particles and carefully clean the top and bottom scan heads. Scanning to searchable PDF works incredibly well. The OCR module does a pretty admirable job of scanning text and making it searchable in a PDF. Pro tip: if you're on Windows and you want to use Windows Search to look for text in PDF you need to go download Adobe's PDF iFilter app and install it on every computer that needs to search the PDFs, not just the server or workstation where the PDFs reside. Software installation is clumsy and requires a bunch of updates. The ONE THING this scanner needs to do right is to scan to searchable PDF. In order to do this, I had to turn off all the "quick button" features and change the app to scan to application: save to a folder. I demo'd it before some scanning/archiving company tried to bid us $10,000 to do our scanning work for us and their demo system did far worse than this little scanner."
"I have used at least 5 different scanners trying to find one that would handle years of old paperwork. I have thousands of tiny fuel receipts on crumpled carbon paper that no scanner would scan without jamming."
"It's super fast and it's made my life easier by improving my productivity both at our office and at home."