The Business card scanner are very small, but reasonably-priced single-purpose scanners with only one, and yes only one, aim to reach in their lives: to scan business cards, and these scanners are capable of separating out the clutter of various types of information viz. the name, title, address, and phone number.

It would also store this data, with the use of either software that is supplied with the scanner, also in to a personal information manager or the packages of addresses book available with most of the email solution providers such as Outlook.

It might appear like a bit of an over enthusiastic to have a special scanner for your particular business cards, so anyone who has visited or attended a trade show, or has participated in a business conference, he knows as to how many Business card scanner he could come back with him, and how much time he would take to enter the card information in to his addresses list. A simple scanner could be performing the similar work task with a much decent OCR software program, yes they are not that fast, and you might have to go for manually transferring the information.

The views might be varying; opinions might differ very widely about the real purpose of Business card scanner. As the designs, letter-shape, and the graphics on many business cards may vary from card to card that a lot of card information would be scanned would

need corrections. It is said that these are real time saving devices, and it is also said that all corrections that are needed to be done are still a very less work compared to the typing of all business cards information from each business card manually. One can say that it depends on the speed of your typing. It is always observed that selecting from the information from Business Cards and checking this information for typing errors is a lot slow than simply typing it my own pace. But for the wood picker or a hunt-and-pick type of keyboard artist as most professionals are, the scanners are a real time help.

In your office:

To get rid of the stacks of your office business cards the Business card scanner, would retype and then export the contacts in few seconds. The business cards instantly become part of your favorite program called as contact manager.

And if you are at one of the Trade Shows that you attend quite often and get back with a bundle of Business Cards, this compact, light and USB powered, the business Card is on your side to extend you an easy solution you can carry it around. The business Card is one of the best tools to smartly and quickly give you a message to help you follow-up on all your leads and you are not going to lose any contact again.

While you are at your, the business card scanner would keep all your personal addresses in a small handy place and you may not need those old books always latest with the help of a business scanner. The business Card works as a perfect photo scanner too. It can also be used to digitize your pictures those are of 4 x 6 sizes, and it would be scanned with up to 600 dpi resolution and it is an ergonomically designed device better than a regular flat bed scanner.

Who should be buying a Business Card Scanner

If you are sitting with a huge stack of business cards, you might not need to go for typing them all into your computer software. The technology of scanning has developed to a great extent and it can help you with small, low cost scanners those are made for specific use of business cards, to capture entire text based information from the business card e.g. name, company name address, phone, fax, and e-mail address. And it feeds it directly to the contact management program you use. It would save you a lot of precious time. If you receive tones of business cards, e.g. at the trade show that you are attending and you do plan to have a follow up call by writing a much detailed mail, you need a business card scanner definitely. There are experiences, mixed experiences telling about the accuracy of business card scanners. This information is normally shown by making attractive graphics, in unusually big fonts. The technology would take time to mature, and would take time to get be popular and user friendly. The business card scanners probably are not necessary if the number of business cards that you get is not big enough to justify the purchase of business visiting cards.

There are other and much different methods of storing the business cards. These are arranging them alphabetically, making a plastic card holder book and storing the cards into it, with a dozen cards on one page per slot of the book. But yes in the plastic card holder book it is not possible to keep the business cards alphabetically. If you decide to remain low tech, you can use a rolodex with alphabetical tab divider.

It is easy to have an alphabetic arrangement of cards when you remember all the names you have in your card holder. But the real problem arises when you need to arrange the business cards of persons you do not remember their names. The situation becomes complex and uneasy with the names of the service providers. You need to keep these numbers for your future use. For example let us assume a situation that your friend recommends a lawyer to you, now where would you store it with the name of your friend or with the alphabet of the name of the lawyer! It would be better if you store it by the professional category as a Lawyer, in L on your rolodex. You can have same method to have names of your plumbers and your accountants and all other professions that help you in the discharge of your business or you might be dealing with for your business.

A business card reader helps you to scan the business cards and capture the necessary information these cards have with one-touch. And send it to your existing electronic address book.

How does it work Just insert the business cards inside the scanner, it will immediately capture the business card and store the information into computer with accuracy .It will also synchronize the address book. These could be Outlook, Act! Outlook Express, Address Book, New Contact, Entourage.