A Business Card Scanner Can Be Your Best Friend at Trade Shows
Posted 09/13/09
Salemen and trade show exhibitors and attendees alike find business card scanners invaluable. 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 beauty of a business card scanner lies in 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. The business card scanner uses field identification technology to translate information such as name, address, email address and business, fax and mobile phone numbers into the fields template utilized by your particular contacts manager. How much easier could it be to store valuable contact information for future use. Scan time is mere seconds, thus eliminating the need to type the information from each card into your contacts manager. 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. You can also share by installing the card database into a shared network. Any member of the network can access and manage the scanned information from any work station. Business card scanners are also ideal for collecting necessary client information, such as drivers licenses, passports, medical insurance cards and photographs. Certain business card scanner models are also self powered and eliminate the need to carry a cord and bulky power adapter with you when you travel.
It is not hard to understand how attractive business card scanners are to people who travel for a living, meeting perhaps hundreds of prospective business contacts at trade shows, workshops and seminars. How can the busy business person possibly keep control of all the business cards he or she collects in the course of a year. There is also one final yet important note: business card scanners are invaluable to helping your business to go green. A reduction in the number of business cards produced will ultimately help save trees.
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