Why I buy this one ?
- Use drag-and-drop feature to consolidate important business info from email, web sites, and other electronic media
- Creates digital address book from scanned business cards
- Categorize contacts, search, sort, print labels, map addresses
- Synchronizes with most business software including Outlook, Palm, Windows Mobile, iPods, and many smartphones
- Dimensions 7.1 x 7.4 x 2.5 inches; weight 1.3 pounds

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What our customer's say!

"adequate", The CardScan works as advertised however the interface with OUTLOOK could be more seamless. The device is capable of scanning unusually formatted cards and still get 90% of the information correct.
The need to use the interface to synchronize i.e. export to OUTLOOK is somewhat cumbersome though the software allows batch processing.


"Good Enough", I have found this product to be very easy to use and the results are sufficent for the cost of the item. The first one I purchased did not work. I called the tech support number and got through right away. I described the problem and they said to return it to where I had bought it. The return process with Amazon was extremely easy and they sent me a replacement before I could even get the faulty one back to them. The replacement worked great and I have scanned in a lot of cards that were just floating around my desk. All the cards I had been "planning" on entering by hand into Outlook. All done in less than an hour. I like this device.

"Card -- just what they promised", I had my doubts about character recognition software but the scanner did exceptionally well.

I had a big backlog of cards from the U.S. and 4 different countries to add into my outlook contacts files so I took a chance on the V8 card scanner.

It not only read and accurately entered information from a wide variety of type faces, it even got most of the address information for countries as diverse as Brazil, Korea, and China. I have to do very little correcting.

I am very pleased with this scanner, I wonder if they have a page scanner with the same OCR software?

They also delivered it faster than expected.

"Great scanner for the price", The CardScan V8 is a quick and reliable scanner for a reasonable price. I had 500 + business cards that needed to be uploaded into Outlook. This scanner made an easy job of it. I uploaded the entire stack and then approved them in batches throughout the week.

Easy interface with Outlook which identifies and resolves duplicates(!).

I liked the ability to scan the reverse of the card, particularly important with international business clients that may print the reverse of the card with local information in their working language.

I would highly recommend the CardScan V8.

"No Vista 64 Support", I am sure it works quite well, I am sure it is great, just don't get it if you have a 64bit version of Vista because they do not support it and have no plans to create a driver for Vista64. I checked for compatability and right here it says, works with Vista.

Here is my note from tech support:
The 60ii is not supported on 64-bit systems. We're sorry for any confusion or inconvenience this may have caused. There is no current plan to develop a 64-bit driver for the 60ii. A follow-up model, which will be called the 62, will have 64-bit support but the timeline for its release is indefinite. Also, it will simply be inserted in identical Personal edition boxes as the 60ii is phased out, so you will have no way to spot it when it hits the shelves.

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"Not bad when it works", It worked fine for a while. Then it quit recognizing cards when they were inserted in the device.

Calls to support are maddening. Just forget about it. After waiting 30 minutes with no answer with an irritating voice remind you how to self-fix your problem, I gave up and threw it in the trash!

Waste of money and time. DO NOT BUY unless you recognize this is a disposable device. Forget about warranty. If don't answer their phone or their email, I guess they never have to provide it.

"Card sensor is problematic", Reader did not reliably sense insertion of card. Called Cardscan (CS) customer service. Was on infinite hold. Returned to Amazon for replacement. Replacement had same insertion issue and drive motor made lots of noise. Returned replacement. CS sent me email saying to insert at angle; helped a little. Card sensor is an issue. When it senses card, it works (scan/OCR) fine.

"Cardscan for Home Office users", I selected the Cardscan 60 for my home office needs. I had a large pile of cards that I did not have the patience to enter into Outlook.

I run Vista and had some initial problems loading the software under the AutoRun process. I had to restart the installation and then opened the files on the disk and then manually selected the .exe program to begin installation. This worked.

Once the software was installed the program works very well. The scanner is rated at a little slower than the larger models but frankly I don't think it is money well spent. The scan speed of the 60 is fine for my needs. I processed over 100 cards in 20 minutes including edit checks...

Cardscan synchs very well with Outlook 2003 which I use as my contact DB.

I did notice as other users have reported that the scanner seems to stop feeding cards after 15 or so inserts...not sure why but when I lifted the scanner and tilted it back while holding the card in place, the scanner began to operate and accepted the cards. I emailed Cardscan and they gave a number for me to call which I will do this week.

It seems to read all standard US and European cards styles very well. It cannot read company names if part of logos or wild font styles. It's accuracy is about 80% meaning you will have to go back and check and edit some cards as they are processed.

Definitely worth the cost and saves lots of time and keeps my database current.

"CardScan Review-Bill Dubovsky for Bits & Bytes, SI Business Trends", CardScan Personal Card Scanner. - Bill Dubovsky, S.I. Business Trends, "Bits & Bytes," July, 2008.

Situation: You have just been to a meeting, trade show or business mixer and have a slew of new business cards. You put a rubber band around them and promise yourself to enter them into Outlook, ACT!, Goldmine or other contact manager and follow up with each contact. In many cases the only time you will touch those cards a second time is when the rubber band decomposes and the cards are all over your desk drawer. If only there was an easy way to get that information into your computer, smart phone or PDA data base without having to re-enter each card! That solution may be here.

What is it? The CardScan personal is a small USB connected and powered scanner that you can take on the road, scan in each business card, and have it saved as an image, an address card file, or synchronize with most of the major contact data bases and smart phones. The system I reviewed is the CardScan personal by CardScan, Inc., about $153 on Amazon.com.

How it works: You first install the software which is provided on a CD-ROM. Next you attach the cord from the small scanner to a USB port on your computer, and start up the software. You follow directions to set-up and align the scanner.

To scan in a business card, just feed them into the scanner which is a little larger than an eye glass case. It feeds each card through one at a time, taking only a few seconds per card. Once they're in, you can review the actual card (on the bottom half of the screen) with the text (on the top of the screen). At that point you can check for errors or missing info and add it or move it as you would with any text editor. When you're satisfied with the text you click on "verify" and the business card data goes into a data base. You can also classify a card as to prospect, vendor, etc. and you can de-dup the list looking for doubles of cards. Editing can be in the "drag and drop" mode, reducing the chance for mistakes, or you can delete or add your own information, comments, or notes at that time.

You can actually use the CardScan software as your data base and print out your card information in many formats. You can even just print out a page with the actual card images on them (if you have cards with photos on them) and you can use the data in a mail merge function or even create mailing labels from them.

Other features include a quick search function, one-click emailing, creating mailing labels with a DYMO LabelWriter Printer (automatic connect), synch with your other database software and "safeguard" which allows you to back up and save a copy of your data on-line so if your computer crashes or you lose your PDA or smart phone, you can always retrieve your contact data.

What you need: Microsoft Windows XP or Windows 2000, a Pentium or later processor, 64 MB or RAM and 90 MB - 120 MB of hard-disk space. The CardScan personal scanner comes with all software, hardware and cables you need to connect to your computer.

How hard is it to use? I connected my CardScan scanner to my MacBook Pro, using the Bootcamp Windows XP partition and got it working within 10 minutes.

Findings: It worked as advertized. I always like to check the users' comments and reviews in Amazon before I buy anything, as they seem to be an honest assessment of what you can expect.

Pros: It actually worked better than I thought it would. Standard business cards worked the best, while "artsy" cards with unusual type fonts did poorly. It really got me to take notice of the design of people's business cards. I found that the more professional cards, from more established businesses, scanned easily with little or no corrections necessary. Amateurish cards with lots of text and graphics didn't do as well. They were even hard to read when I reviewed them visually! The CardScan software also allows you to scan the backs of the cards and keep the both sides together.

It was convenient enough to export the information to my contact manager, ACT!, and to make address cards for Mac's Address Book, which could be stored on an iPhone. CardScan also markets a similar scanning system for tracking business receipts and expenses.

Cons: Because people's cards are so diverse in design and layout, I had to review each card for accuracy. While editing and "drag and dropping" data from one field to another is easier and less time consuming than entering all the data into the database, it's not automatic.

Bottom-line: I was impressed at the software's ability to handle the job and felt that the price was a fair value. It actually worked better than I thought it would and I would recommend the unit for businesses or organizations who collect a lot of business cards, especially after business shows. The unit also has other features and functions which I don't need at the current time, but appear to be useful and impressive, especially for people who don't use contact management software.[...]

"Better than Expected", Bought the product to scan business cards and discovered the software was marvelous and the on-line access was wonderful for updating my database.The porgram worked very well integrating with OutLook, and again I was pleasantly surprised how well is sycronized.