| Average Customer Rating: |  3.0 |
| Brand: | Dymo-CoStar Corp |
| Model: | 1750381 |
| Weight: | 1.75 pounds |
| Dimensions: | 5.5 inches x 7.5 inches x 2.5 inches
[Width x Length x Height] |
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Consolidate all your contact data; accurately scan business cards, drag-and-drop from email signatures, sync to Address Book Now for the Mac user Universal none
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The CardScan Executive for Mac User Interface and Business Card Scanner make it easy to capture and manage your valuable contact information. Featuring software designed from the ground up to work with features of the Mac Leopard OS, this system lets you consolidate contact information from business cards and electronic documents, including email signatures and web sites. In addition, this scanner makes it easy to sync contacts in your Address book, iPod, and iPhone to meet your on-the-go needs.  | CardScan Executive for Mac: - Scans up to 20 business cards a minute
- Captures contact info from email signatures and vCards
- Synchs with Address Book, iPhones, and iPods
- Exports data to Entourage and other software
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The easy-to-navigate UI was designed to maximize existing features of your Mac. View larger. | 
True drag-and-drop ease makes capturing digital contact information simple. View larger. | 
With its slim, elegant design the scanner fits neatly in your workstation. View larger. | Capture Contact Information
The CardScan Executive scanner can scan up to 20 business cards a minute in color. Known for fast, accurate performance, the scanner works with native Mac software to help you convert the data on business cards into a digital form that's easy to use. You can also use the CardScan software to consolidate contact information from electronic sources, including web sites and email signatures. With drag-and-drop performance, the CardScan makes creating a complete contact record as easy as highlighting the contact data you want, dragging it over the list area of the CardScan window, and releasing. Designed to work with Mac OS 10.5.3+ (Leopard), the new easy-to-use CardScan interface combines Mac-specific design with many of the functions that have made CardScan for Windows an award-winning choice for business professionals. Updated CardScan sofware for Windows is also included in the Executive package, so you can be sure you'll have access to the version that meets your needs. Manage Contacts With Ease
Once your contacts are entered in the CardScan software, you can assign single or multiple customizable categories to each one. This makes it easy to sort contacts, view them in groups, and prepare lists of contacts for email or direct mail. Plus with the easy-to-use Print Wizard, creating custom envelopes, labels, and more is hassle-free. All this means that outreach projects get done faster and are easier to keep track of. Using the "Batch Scan" feature to scan a whole stack of business cards at once lets you quickly assign several cards the same category or notes, saving you time. And when you can't remember someone's name, but you know what their business card looks like, the image view feature lets you fan through color images of all your scanned business cards. Stay in Sync on the Move
Keep your contact list up-to-date across the applications and mobile devices that you use on a daily basis. Since CardScan can be set up to sync automatically with Mac's Address Book, it's easy to keep the contact lists in your iPhone, iPod, and MobileMe network in synch, too. It's equally easy to export information as vCards (electronic business cards) to other software, including Microsoft Entourage. All CardScan products offer a risk-free 30-day trial. And all new CardScan Executive systems include software for both Windows and Mac OS.
What's in the Box
Color business card scanner, software for Mac OS and Windows.
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FeaturesScanner designed especially for Mac captures and manages your valuable contact informationScans up to 20 business cards a minute in color; consolidates contact info from electronic sources, including web sites and email signaturesDesigned to work with Mac OS 10.5.3+ (Leopard); includes software for Windows usersCan sync automatically with Mac's Address BookIncludes risk-free 30-day trial
Customer reviews
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No Cigar!
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The only game in town (that I know of) for scanning cards on a MAC.
Three negatives:
*Mistake prone: some evident, some you might miss (don't believe everything you see)
*Slow and hangs
*Can totally screw up MAC Address Book and Entourage data when syncing if you're not paying attention
Not quite ready for prime time as a business app on MAC
Rating:
(3
out of 5) @ 2008-11-02
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Works for me, flawlessly!
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Fortunately, I was eligible for a $179 competitive upgrade direct from the manufacturer for an old CardScan Windows brick I found down in my basement in the box of orphaned peripherals. I had loved CardScan back in my Windows days, but had lost hope that they would come out with a Mac version. In the meantime, I had struggled with the kludgey I.R.I.S. business card scanner for mac and its flakey crapware that really didn't integrate with Mac Address Book all that well and had a horrible OCR recognition error rate and field parsing engine and seemed to run like it was written in Javascript.
Well, I'm happy that the Mac version of CardScan works flawlessly for me with a typical Mac setup (an Intel Mac Book Pro running 10.5.5.) and that setup was a snap. With some trepidation, I synched with my Address Book and no precious contact data was lost or damaged. I then scanned some business cards and it parsed the various fields with almost 100% accuracy, including some tricky company names in graphic logos, and put the data in a suggested "inspector" window. One click to verify (or change any fields with a linked zoom to the card pane view) and the new card data is in the CardScan database and then synched with your mac Address Book.
Couldn't be easier! Very satisfied user! While I'm not a frequent Amazon reviewer or any kind of computer expert, I wanted to post a counter review to the two negative reviews recently posted. While individual products and installations can sometimes be flaky and your mileage may vary, I found this CardScan product to be as good as I remember the Windows version being and better, because everything's better on a Mac (including Address Book being better than the fugly Outlook ecosystem).
Rating: 
(5
out of 5) @ 2008-10-25
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Application crashed! very disappointed!
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I just bought the Mac version of Cardscan Executive. I was happy that a Mac version have been released. Unfortunately after a long day of trial and search for information... no way... Each time I launch the application it crashed!
Be very carefull before buying this product. I'm not sure it works on Mac. And technical support on Mac is unreachable... Cardscan support web site is dedicated to Windows users !
Rating: 
(1
out of 5) @ 2008-10-08
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Version 1.0 works, if installed by administrator
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Version 1.0 requires that the application is run one time by an administrative user. This writes the serial # file in /Library, and creates the appropriate directories as admin. Once this is done, the application does work.
OCR is relatively slow, and is performed in the foreground, requiring you to watch a little window with a card image in it for half a minute. There is a batch mode for scanning, but again you must watch that window during batch processing. This modality makes the application less than useful as an address book.
The scanner itself is noisy and slow. I would prefer to use my ScanSnap S300M to scan cards, as it is faster and better, but CardScan cannot import images from other sources. Thus, I will have to carry around a second (small) scanner.
There are several small foibles: the country field is always populated, as stated above you cannot import and scan images from other applications, limitations on fields, interpretation, and some problems with misinterpretation of addresses in office parks and other odd places.
I have also not used the Address Book sync yet, as this could be dangerous given the installation bug above.
This application would have been better off in a scanner bundle, combining OCR with e.g. SBook, rather than a $200+ application.
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Previously, I wrote: Version 1.0 software requires an Administrative. Repeatedly asks for Serial Number, crashes while trying to set Preferences. Does not scan cards.
Rating:
(3
out of 5) @ 2008-09-27
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