Business Card Scanner

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Is your wallet overstuffed with business cards? Is your desk littered with them? Does your business deal with so many clients and people that you have tons of business cards and receive more every day? Well it’s time to take those cards and burn them, but not before getting all the information out of them. The best way to get all the mess together is to scan the business cards and get the information into a digital form which is easier to handle, store, and sort. For this you would need a business card scanner.

Business card scanners are specially designed to scan business cards or anything of the size. Some of them are flat bed in design while others are automatic document feeder types (ADF), even others are capable of double side scanning on a single pass. It’s not just the way these scanners scan cards that is important, it is also the software bundled with them or even how they manage the data that they have gathered. It is often important to send the data to other people or location so it is important that your business card scanner is accessible from anywhere so it should be network capable or at least connected to a network shared computer.

Bizcardreader offers the DuplexScan 1200, a business card scanner capable of duplex scanning on a single pass. This scanner is made o scan hard or plastic cards, including laminated cards. However it can only accept cards in the true sense of the word, so you cannot scan your passport or other small documents which is not in card form. Its USB powered with 100-600 dpi resolution and is just truly a card scanner. If you are in need of a scanner that can scan booklets, passports, or other things bigger than business cards, they offer the Passport 960C which is a flatbed scanner which has a maximum scanning area of 8.5 by 5.0 inches. Like the DuplexScan 1200, it is also capable 100-600 dpi scan resolutions. The good thing about flat bed scanners is that you can scan a variety of objects with varying thickness and size. ScanShell offers a different kind of scanner, the Snapshell which was made specifically for driver’s license scanning. It incorporates legacy ultraviolet and infrared technologies for verifying the authenticity of a driver’s license. You just hold up the license up on the scanning screen and presto, it automatically brings up the data concerning the ID when the ID has been validated to be authentic. This is most useful for government agencies.

Dymo’s CardScan Personal is bundled with great software which manages all the contact data you have collected from business cards and it even takes data from anywhere including web sites or any text that can be highlighted. Just drag the highlighted text to the bundled software and it automatically adds the data to your contacts and do with it as you please. It has a very compact design, USB powered is  designed to be carried anywhere, to trade shows, business meetings, seminars, etc., where you might meet a lot of contacts and get a lot of business cards. You have a variety of choices for your business card scanner needs so choose well.