Binding: Electronics
Brand: Iris
EAN: 0765010423170
Product Features: Lightweight, portable business card scanner
Format: DVD-ROM
Label: IRIS
Manufacturer: IRIS
Model: USOA108
Number Of Items: 1
Platform: No Operating System
Publisher: IRIS
Product Release Date: 2003-07-18
Studio: IRIS

Lightweight, portable business card scanner
Scans business cards and photos up to 4.2 by 12 inches
Exports directly to most contact-management software systems
Recognizes characters from 6 to 48 points, grayscale, and color images
USB connectivity; menus in 6 languages

The IRIS Business Card Reader II (IBCR II) is a state-of-the-art business card management solution to create and update your electronic address book.The scanner, small and light, allows you to scan your business cards wherever you are. It scans in color and connects via a USB port: a simple plug and play is enough to start the scanning.The software, Cardiris 3, bundled with the IBCR II, is the new version of IRIS' powerful contact organizer. In seconds Cardiris analyzes the information your business cards contain and send it to the right fields of the database. All the data concerning your contacts - company, first name, last name, address, e-mail, etc. - are encoded with no effort!

Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Nothing but problems with this card reader
Review: I would NOT recommend this item. I had problem after problem with it and, in the end, it was not useful at all. While the tech support email service was notably quick in responding, their fixes could not salvage this effectively useless product.

1) As noted by another reviewer, the driver is not digitally signed for xp. Tech support said they didn't want to pay for it and that it worked fine in their tests, but if other companies are getting their products approved, I am inclined to switch to them.

2) The recognition part of the software was unable to properly read in a card. The scans were reasonably clean, but the ORC would come up with at most the person's name and maybe part of their title, but other categories (company, email) would be random characters and the remaining categories would not be filled.

3) Unhelpful tech support. Tech support emails were responded to quickly, but the advice was not particularly helpful and was unable to solve the problems I was having.

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Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Iris Card scanner
Review: The scanner works great, it works well for processing a single card and multiple cards. easy to use and good quality business card scans. A great value for the price.

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Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Timesaver and simple
Review: This little device actually does what it claims to do! Quick and easy install, and if you are technically savy you really don't need the directions for running it. Worth the price and effort.

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Customer Rating:
Review Summary: see ya later cards
Review: This card reader is what I expected. It gets the job done. The quality of the image is a little grainy, but overall I am pleased with the product. I can carry all the business cards I want with me on a laptop. I can categorized them into separate databases with filenames that are meaningful to me and access them quickly, and move the database files to another computer and access them after installing the card reader software. As long as I back up the database files, I'll always have access to them. Even if I have to replace my hard drive and reinstall my operating system.

HM

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Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Awesome Product
Review: This is a superb product. Electronic rolodex with the options to export to Outlook and many other programs. Automatically fills in the information from the card to the program. Great feature!

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