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IRISCard Mini Card Scanner (Silver) | 
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Brand: Iris
Category: CE
List Price: $129.99
Buy New: $129.00
You Save: $0.99 (1%)
Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Format: Cd
Platforms: Macintosh, Windows Xp
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Windows & Macintosh
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 3.3 x 8
MPN: USOA309
Model: USOA309
UPC: 765010101528
EAN: 0076501010473
ASIN: B000F7EV26
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Single-click export | | • | Synchronization with Palm and Pocket PC | | • | 8 User interface languages English, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, German, Dutch, and Russian | | • | OCR on the fly drag-and-drop names, emails, web sites, etc. directly into the right database fields or in any application | | • | Automatic orientation of business cards |
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Amazon.com Product Description
The IRISCard Mini Card Scanner is a robust and affordable business card scanning solution that's ideal for both individuals and small companies. By quickly and easily scanning business cards , the IRISCard can help you keep a record of all important contacts. Convenient and versatile, it synchronizes with Pocket PCs and Palm devices, as well as Outlook and Outlook Express. To help keep you organized, the IRISCard also features a one-touch export button so you can send your contacts to your favorite electronic address book after scanning them. 
The Mini Card scanner is a robust, affordable way to quickly and easily scan business cards and record important information. View larger. | 
The system utilizes Cardiris software, the IRISCard organizer tool.
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IRISCard works with a variety of email software packages.
View screenshots. | Small and Easy to Use
The IRISCard offers reliable and incredibly easy operation. Simply insert your business cards inside the unit, and they will be instantaneously captured into your computer with precision. You can also export or synchronize the data with your electronic address book, so it's a snap to access the exact information you need when you need it. The IRISCard works with a variety of email software packages, like Outlook, Outlook Express, Address Book, Now Contact, and Entourage. It also recognizes cards from up to 56 countries, features eight user-interface languages (English, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, German, Dutch, and Russian), and is USB powered, so it's the ideal travel companion. Where and When to Use the IRISCard
Compact, light, and portable, the IRISCard comes in handy at home, in the office, or on the road. At home, the IRISCard lets you keep your personal address book always up-to-date. It's also an efficient TWAIN photo scanner that digitizes your 4 x 6 pictures with up to 600 dots per inch (dpi) resolution. And thanks to its ergonomic design, the IRISCard is much more comfortable to use than regular flatbed scanners. At the office, you can rely on the IRISCard to help minimize disorganized piles of business cards cluttering up your desk. Since this device scans, retypes, and exports your contacts in just seconds, they're instantly available to you rather than scattered all over your workplace. The IRISCard also helps you out when you're away from your home or office. Whether at trade shows, conferences, or other out-of-town events, the IRIS Card is the best tool to quickly store new contacts, so you can follow up on all your leads. Special Operating Features
The IRISCard uses BCR technology that combines I.R.I.S. OCR and "Field Parsing" technologies for accurate recognition and field matching. The system also utilizes Cardiris, the IRISCard business card organizer tool. Thanks to the user-friendly interface and automatic orientation, deskewing, and cropping of the business cards, you'll never have to struggle to get consistent, high-quality results. To rapidly and accurately convert business cards into database records, the IRISCard also offers state-of-the-art field analysis while the zoom function lets you see every detail in each card. Designed for OCR on the fly, this scanner gives you the option to drag and drop names, emails, and websites directly in the right database fields or in any application.
What's in the Box
USOA309 IRISCard business card scanner, USB cable, calibration card for the scanner, software CD-ROM (Cardiris business card organizer software, demo version of Readiris Pro OCR software, GoodContacts), quick installation guide, and registration card and user license.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Good for Mac January 5, 2007
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Nice card scanner for the price paid. Works very good with Mac, but the recognition software and export feature could be better. Recomended.
A little costly, but fairly effective December 17, 2006
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I felt the previous review was a little too harsh and does not do this product justice for it's most effective use: namely, business card scanning. I'm a mac computer consultant and I recently set this up for a client who gets a large volume of business cards. While it doesn't get all information from every single card, it's still a huge time saver relative to manually inputing this information. I'm impressed enough that I'm looking to get this for myself right away.
 Yep, this thing's going back... November 28, 2006
10 out of 17 found this review helpful
I've been looking for a small compact card scanner to use in our dental office to scan insurance cards and the like. This scanner appeared to have the right combination of features and price for me to go ahead and order it. I'm very sorry I did, because it definitely does not meet my expectations.
First the good things: The scanner is definitely small, but doesn't feel flimsy. It's heavy enough to stay in place on the desk. It doesn't feel obviously cheap or anything. It also gets its power from USB, so no separate power adapter.
Now, the rest: The scanner attaches to the computer with a non-standard USB cable that has the Type A connector at both ends. This means I can't share a cable with any other peripheral and just plug the scanner into whatever cable is lying on my desk. If they didn't have room on the scanner to put a full size B connector, they could have used the mini-B connector that's been a standard for over five years now.
The packaging is really chintzy. There's some folded cardboard inside that's intended to support the disc case of the software, but it looks like it was done by hand, and the case slips right through anyway. There's a couple of sheets in the box that are obviously hand xeroxed. It's one's first impression of the product and it doesn't quite scream "quality".
We were scanning insurance cards, which are generally the same size as credit cards. They're well within the advertised dimensions of the scanner, but when adjusting the scanner settings, you can't set a custom scan size to exactly match the size of the card. The custom scan size is only adjustable in half inch increments, so you either get a scan that's too big with extra data, or cut off. Additionally, custom sizes can only go up to 2 inches high, which isn't quite high enough to get the whole card (although the default business card size in the software does get the whole height for some reason, even though business card are shorter than credit cards).
The scanner has a nifty automatic feature that starts scanning when you insert a card. This would save a second or two because you wouldn't have to manually click a scan button on the computer to start. However, in our experience, the automatic mode would start feeding the card, but not actually start capturing until a quarter inch or so went through. With something as small and as densely packed as a business card or insurance card, you can't afford to lose a chunk off the side. We always lost the end of some crucial phone number or ID number when using the automatic mode.
The scanner generally handles the thickness of an insurance card fine, but doing something a little thicker like a driver's license or a real credit card always choked it.
When scanning in TWAIN mode (like we were doing), it always saves the scan in the same orientation in which the card goes through the scanner. Since the cards only go through the scanner sideways, it means our scans always came out sideways and we'd have to manually rotate the picture on the computer (or rotate our head to match).
Note: I only used the scanner in TWAIN mode, with our dental software as the front end. I never even used the business card organizing software. The scanning process is the same even if you're using it with their software, but maybe there's something redeeming about the business card organizing aspect of it that makes it worth putting up with the other problems.
In short, if you're looking for a TWAIN scanner, keep looking. There's got to be something better out there. If you're looking just to organize business cards, this might work for it, but with all its other problems, why not just get something tried and true like the CardScan?
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