Capture and Manage Your Valuable Contact Information With a Business Card Scanner
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Salemen and trade show exhibitors and attendees alike find business card scanners invaluable. Business card scanners are ideal tools 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 allows the business card scanner to scan business cards using advanced image processing and field identification technology to digitally convert the written data and transmit it to your electronic organizer or laptop. Transmission 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 have the capability to share your contacts with the other members of your computer network, so everyone is working with 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 are also ideal for collecting necessary client information, such as drivers licenses, passports, medical insurance cards and photographs. 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 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 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.
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