Capture and Manage Your Valuable Contact Information With a Business Card Scanner
Posted 08/29/09
Business card scanners are invaluable tools for the salesman and the trade show exhibitor or attendee. They are perfect, really, for anyone who needs to keep in touch with numerous business contacts. Why keep collecting stacks and stacks of business cards when you can scan and transfer the same information to your laptop contacts manager in no time.The business card scanners best feature is its optical character recognition program (OPR). OPR technology gives the business card scanner its ability to scan business cards through advanced image processing and field identification. Transmission of the data from scanner to laptop is performed through a standard USB cable. Field identification technology allows the business card scanner to translate such information as contact name, address, email address and business, fax and mobile phone numbers into the fields template used by your contacts manager. Can you imagine any easier way to store valuable contact information for future use. In mere seconds you can capture the information you need without having to painstakingly type it into your contacts manager every time. You could scan hundreds of business cards per hour with a business card scanner.
Some business card scanners save your contact information online as a backup. Others allow you to share your contacts with the other members of your computer network so that everyone has access to the same information. Sharing can be accomplished by plugging and unplugging the USB cable and port from one computer to another. Another way to share is by installing the card database on a shared network. Any member of the network can access and manage the scanned information from any work station. Business card scanners can also capture images of drivers licenses, passports, medical insurance cards and photographs, making them ideal for collecting your clients personal identification, if needed. Some models are even self powered, eliminating the need to carry a cord and bulky power adapter around with you when you travel.
It is not hard to see why people who travel for a living consider their business card scanners to be a valuable business partner. The busy business person cannot possibly keep track of all the business cards he or she collects during the course of a year. There is one final yet important benefit to business card scanners: they can help your business to go green. A reduction in the number of business cards produced will ultimately help save trees.