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CardScan Executive features a desktop card scanner and full-featured contact management software -- ideal for the power user. Synchronizes easily with Outlook, PDAs, smart phones plus ACT!, Lotus Notes and GoldMine. Color scanning and fast 3 second scan.
From the Manufacturer
The CardScan® Executive is the "Best-in-Class" business card scanner. Easily drag and drop contact data from email or web pages and it's instantly placed in the correct fields of the CardScan software or mobile device. Manage your contacts in CardScan software or seamlessly sync with your software and mobile device.
Saving time capturing business cards is only the beginning.
Designed for the power user and those with more advanced contact management needs, CardScan Executive allows you to scan, drag and drop or import contacts, and manage them with ease. Synchronize your data with Outlook®, Lotus® Notes, ACT!* ®, GoldMine®*, Palm® and Windows® Mobile devices. Batch scan a trade show’s worth of cards - the Executive can handle it - it comes with a faster, more powerful scanner that adds color to your contacts.
Scanning business cards is only half the story. You’re likely getting as many contacts in email these days. We make quick work of that, too.
Simply highlight the contact information in an email signature, web page or other text file and drag it over to the CardScan software. It’s instantly placed into the correct fields. It can’t be much easier than that!
If you’re sync’ing to Outlook, you now have your contact data there too, all with one click of the mouse. CardScan is also the only leading business card reader with online back-up, web access and an updating service. We keep your data safe so you can access it anytime.
User Interface
How’s it different from other CardScan products?
If you use a PC: Only solution in the industry to include free, secure online backup and updating service.
If you use a Mac: CardScan Executive for Mac does not currently include the online backup and updating service.
Features & Benefits
Fast!
The fastest scan speed – up to 30 cards a minute!
Easy-to-use Software
More than a business card scanner CardScan’s powerful, easy-to-use software is a complete contact management solution.
Versatile
Capture contact information from almost anywhere (business cards, email signatures, web pages and more).
Convenient
CardScan puts your contact information where you want it and keeps you in sync (Outlook, ACT!, Notes, GoldMine, Palm or Windows Mobile, Blackberry and more).
Safe
CardScan keeps your contact data safe, securely backing up your data to our CardScan At Your Service™ online service at no charge.
Risk-free
All CardScan products offer an unconditional risk free 30 day trial because we’re sure you will like our products as much as we do.
Get the latest “how-to” tips to make your CardScan contact management solution work harder for you.
Your CardScan solution comes with so many features that you may find yourself wondering how you ever got along without it. From the simple but all-important capture of contact information to producing mailing labels at breakneck speed, you’ll find each feature a golden opportunity for you to get and stay organized.
Scan and Launch
Insert the card and voila! You’ve launched the program.
Quick Search
Just type a few letters and the software springs into action.
Organize
Use Categories to display contacts by whatever they have in common.
De-Dupe
Resolve conflicting or duplicate information with the Duplicate Wizard.
Sync Up
Keep your Outlook/Outlook Express®, Palm®, Windows® mobile device and smartphones up to date and identical.
Drag and Drop
No business card necessary; just an email or other electronic document.
One-Click Email
Select the contacts you want, click the email button and off you go.
Easy Labeling
A print wizard guides you gently to the right format, fields and font; the software does the rest.
Safeguard
Use CardScan At Your Service™ for online access with secure backup.
What’s in the Box:
Package Contents: Personal V8 Business Card Scanner, Detachable USB cord, CardScan version 8 Software, 2 Year Limited WarrantyFrequently Asked Questions:
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How long will it take me to set up the product and get my cards scanned in?
You can set up your CardScan system in about five-ten minutes for individual users, or a few minutes more if you are using one of our solutions for CRM systems. Between 20-40 cards can be scanned per minute, depending on your system and whether you scan in color or black and white.
Can the product read hand written notes?
The product will scan hand written notes, but will not be able to interpret them. An image will be saved of the notes for you to refer to or type in later.
Can it scan insurance cards/receipts/driver’s licenses?
The card will scan most anything that fits within the dimensions of the width of a business card, but the software is not set up to put the information on cards other than business cards into special fields. The image of these cards will be saved, however.
What PDAs does CardScan work with?
Currently, CardScan works with Palm, Handspring, Sony CLI É and Windows Mobile devices.
How accurate is your product?
CardScan can accurately scan most business cards. If you can read the card, CardScan can also. The product will also highlight any fields it feels might be wrong so you can verify the information and correct it if necessary.
Customer
2025-09-05 14:00:56
This is the worst electronic product I've ever bought in my life.After buying the product, I scanned all my 200 business cards and throw them away. It went on to lost all my contacts within a week.I have not been using for about 3 months (since it is not usable) and my cards begin to pile up again. I thought I should reinstall the software and give it another chance. I tried to download the driver from their website, I was taken through the registration process, promising at the end I will get the driver. Instead, I was shown a broken page after I went through the registration and provided all my information.It is an incredible horrible company in terms of products and services. All it has given me is grief.
Brian Metz
2025-09-01 15:21:40
The small, lightweight unit works perfectly and the OCR is amazing!! I read a lot of reviews before buying this unit and was looking for one that had the best OCR so I didn't have to do a lot of data cleanup. It deciphers cards that have a vertical orientation, dark backgrounds, logos, etc. It can read both sides of a card that has data on both sides.The software installed easily on my Dell laptop running Windows 7 and has worked flawlessly. I have not tried to integrate the results into any other program (e.g., Outlook, my Smartphone, etc.), but the documentation says it can be done.It's fast and the batch processing mode works well if you have been out a networking event and come back with a stack of cards.
chiefbh
2025-04-28 13:07:44
I would have thought by now that current OCR software would make reading business cards fairly accurate and reliable. I am the President of a company and expect to be able to quickly enter business cards without having to spend a lot of time reviewing for accuracy. However, I have to make modifications to scanned cards about 50% of the time which arguably defeats having the device. A quick typist could enter just as fast.My recommendation is that if you are quick on the keyboard, this is not a great investment unless you can afford to waste the money. If you are slow at data entry, this probably will save time over the course of a 100 or so cards.More time or money needs to be spent on improving the OCR software. When they can reliably obtain 80% or more accuracy, I would more favorably endorse.
JD
2025-03-04 17:30:08
This product is discontinued and does not synch with newer versions of Windows/Outlook, maybe other systems as well. It also appears from Dymo's site that they discontinued the other models of card scanners you might find on Amazon. Dymo discontinued support and mine will no longer transfer card data to Outlook, even with the newest version of the software installed off Dymo's site. When it exports to Excel, it only sends the contact's name and company name - no contact info! Super disappointed as this worked great before 2019. Now I need to throw this expensive thing away and find another contact management solution - and it won't be from Dymo/Cardscan.
Tangible
2025-02-09 17:31:56
I'm not sure why the previous reviewer had so much trouble with the character recognition. Perhaps it is a defect in the particular unit he received. In my case, it did a very fine job recognizing the data on a large variety of business cards. Very fast, and easy to use. I did not activate the integration with Outlook, but did set it up to make the Cardscan contact list available in Outlook, and that worked just fine.My only quibble is with the free online backup that they offer: the fine print tells you that they will email everyone on your contact list periodically to encourage them to join up. This sounds like a great way to lose all your friends, so I didn't do it.
P. Scott Pope
2025-01-21 12:35:47
After years of delaying the purchase of a business card scanner, I decided to make the plunge after amassing a pile of 300+ business cards. Generally, I am an early adopter of any technology that introduces additional efficiency into my life. However, I was a bit skittish about obtaining a business card scanner due to the negative impressions of the product category. However, despite a few of its shortcomings, the CardScan Executive has been a worthwhile investment.In the past, coworkers have argued that the accuracy of such products is so low (This automated process capability is one element of the software that I didn't fully understand before purchase. Assume you have 500 business cards that have elaborate graphics, which leads you to correctly guess there may be a high error rate. This isn't necessarily a problem as you can 1) scan all of the cards then 2) process (i.e. OCR)then 3) verify manually. The manual step can be done weeks later if you chose. In my case, I often don't know if I will need any of the cards, so the ability to scan and throw away the paper cards is important. Unfortunately it does not have a multi-card sheet feeder so assume that 5-10 seconds per card must be devoted to the original scanning process.Another shortcoming of the CardScan Executive solution is that it does not learn as it goes. For example, if you have several business cards with crazy graphics from employees of a single company, the software does not recognize that you already identified key text on the previously manually verified cards. Moreover, where it can correctly recognize URLs and email domain names, the software can't intelligently determine the company name with this information. The difference between the domain name and the spelling of the company name is most notable with companies that have elaborate icons embedded in their company names.The limitations of the device and software are most likely driven by cost. For several thousand dollars, the afforementioned limitations could be addressed. Yet, at this price point, most individuals who place a value of their time of greater than $20/hour (very low bar for white collar workers) and who want to digitize more than 225 business cards throughout the life of the product will receive a positive return on their investment.Calculation3 minutes saved per card for 225 cards = 11.25 hours11.25 hours @ $20/hour = $225 > $200 purchase priceProsRelatively fast scanningEasy SetupSoftware productivity aids for manual verificationConsNo automated sheet feederDoes not learn from previous verifications or intelligently extract data from the different parts of the card to improve OCR (i.e. company name matched to URL/email domain)
Renzi
2025-01-07 14:58:34
constantly asks for a serial number to activate software but not included. For tech support: Press the ON/OFF button on your business card scanner to turn it ON.. there is NO ON/OFF switch !!
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