The business card scanners offer the convenience of storing and organizing business card information without the need and hassle of storing those rectangular cards. very simple and easy to operate. It basically has a document feeder scanner where a business card is inserted and data is scanned. The business card scanners optical character recognition OCR program then separates the text found on the card and sorts it into categories such as name company name address phone number email website etc.
Places them in the appropriate contact fields in the software database. These business card scanners can work with many other contact programs available in the market such as Canada Mobile Database Outlook Express Microsoft Outlook Lotus Notes Goldmine and ACT among many others as well as PDA smartphones. If you are in the sales force or run a salesoriented type of business these business card scanners will definitely come in handy as they not only scan data from business cards but also sort consolidate and search contact data with an integrated software database system.
With a business card scanner you eliminate the time it takes to encode business card details one by one into your computer. A business card scanner will do this work for you by simply inserting a business card into the device. However business card scanners are still not as robust as some information entered into the system may end up in the wrong location. So basically there is a need to check and make sure all the data is in the correct fields which is just a minor problem.