Editorial Review:

Item Description:
CardScan Personal is the smallest, most affordable system from CardScan - ideal for the user on the go. Synchronizes easily with Outlook, PDAs and smart phones. Monochrome scanning in only 5 seconds per card.PRODUCT FEATURES:Accurately scans and reads business cards in seconds and creates a digital address book;Includes online backup; access from a browser; and contact updating;Consolidates all your contact data using drag-and-drop from email and web sites;Synchronize or export to Outlook, Outlook Express, Palm, Windows Mobile devices, iPods and smart phones;Easily categorize contacts, search, sort, de-dupe, print labels, map addresses and much more.

Amazon.com Item Description:
The CardScan Personal V8 is a fast, efficient way to electronically store business cards with numerous software features including an iPod export function.

CardScan Executive V8 features a sleek new streamlined desktop scanner.

Email CardScan contacts transparently from Outlook View larger.

See as many contacts--or as much contact detail--as you like. View larger.

Software features
The Personal V8 offers a number of new features, including an ultra-compact palm-sized scanner, a 5-second black-and-white scan time, a travel pouch, an export to iPod function (PC Only), and now includes free online back-up, web access and updating service.

Navigation bar
Spend less time looking for information. Just click to quickly locate any contact or group of contacts, by name or category, or to find recently changed records, verified records, duplicates, and recent search results.

Export to iPod
iPod owners can their contacts with them, without investing ina PDA. If you have a new iPod with an address book function, simply export your CardScan address book to the new iPod template, and then load the template to your iPod address book (PC only).

Detect and display an icon for your DYMO LabelWriter
If you have a DYMO LabelWriter printer, CardScan will automatically detect it and place an icon for it on the toolbar. Click on the icon instead of working through the standard Print dialog box to print labels directly to the LabelWriter.

Choose your mapping service
Multiply your mapping options. Now you can map contact addresses using your choice of MapQuest.com, Google Maps, Ask.com maps, Expedia.com, and MultiMap.com.

Designate a CardScan File as an Outlook Address book
Email CardScan contacts transparently from Outlook. Outlook can also 'see' your CardScan contact names and email addresses just as it sees your Outlook contacts. So when you start to type any CardScan contact's name in an email's 'To' field, Outlook will automatically finish entering the contact's name and email address.

What's in the box
CardScan Personal software, CardScan Personal scanner, detachable USB cord, 1 scanner calibration card, 1 scanner cleaning card









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Rating: - * DON'T NETWORK WITHOUT IT! ...
I started networking heavily for my company and the business cards began to pile up. Now with the CardScan they are all in Outlook and synced with my BlackBerry and iPhone. All of my contact data is seamless and at my fingertips no matter where I am.

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Rating: - * Great Gift!!!! ...
FInding a great gift for a man is sometimes a difficult thing to do. My DH loves this... it's a gadget which all men love, it keeps all those business cards off our dresser that he throws there every night when he cleans out his pocket, and it keeps all his contacts nice and organized. It is so quick and easy to use. Ya you do have double check all the cards to make sure they go through correctly but the time to do this is so minimal. I did research and once again Amazon is the place with the best prices!

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Rating: - * CardScan Personal ...
The CradScan Personal Scanner is a very useful tool for the individual that retains a considerably large group of business cards and also enjoys having the cards and information in an organized sequence. The software and scanner are both very user friendly. There may be a few instances when the scanner is unable to read the information on the card due to the business card's font style. The person scanning the card will then have to type in the information, or cut, copy and paste into the correct areas of the contact sheet. The scanner sorts all cards by company, name or phone number. Once the software and information is loaded to your PC, another PC will be able link to and transfer your stored information. In order for both PC's to work at the same time you must purchase an additional license for about $85. I do recommend and am very happy with this product.

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Rating: - * Windows Vista 64-bit ...
The product does not work with Windows Vista 64-bit. Make sure you don't buy it if you have Windows Vista 64-bit.

PS: Gave it four stars because it works well with XP

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Rating: - * Worth it, but have reasonable expectations ...
Let me give some background to this. I'm an intern this summer and I was asked by my boss to get 300+ business cards on the computer and in his Microsoft Outlook address book. This is where I turned (Amazon has the lowest price on this good from anywhere by far).

The good things....
-It was an easy set up
-The software is very friendly and easy to convert to excel or outlook
-The system makes mistakes but its not very hard to go through and check each business card after everything is scanned. The software keeps track of which cards you "verify" which is a nice check on the occasional mistakes that the machine makes. It also shows you the image of the business card that you scanned when you correct the info.
-It impressively tells the difference between phone numbers, fax numbers, and cell phones, direct lines. Everything.

The cons
-Its not super easy to feed cards into all the time. I'd have a streak where I would place the card in the feeder and it would go through no problem, and then that would stop and i'd have to fiddle with how I was feeding in the card. Not a big deal, and you quickly get used to the process.


All in all it saved me a ton of time and got the job done for me. It can do the same for you.