8/30/2023 0 Comments Cardminder mobile viewer![]() Searchable documents: When documents are scanned into ScanSnap Organizer, they are save in PDF format by default. ![]() The industry needs a scanner-independent business management software that can store the original card image along with the post-OCR data (if you know a good one, drop a comment below – if only outlook could conserve the scanned card…). The CardScan software is clearly better, although it also runs much slower than CardMinder (is it written in Visual Basic?). It might be so, but Outlook does not preserve the original card scan, and I think that any business card management software, should stand on its own. In my opinion, CardMinder was built with the idea that the data would be synchronized immediately to another app like Outlook (the sync is very efficient) and that the categorization would actually happen there. ![]() It’s not possible to assign a company name to a bunch of card, and there’s no notion of category at all even though it is a fundamental piece of data to organize cards. I also noticed that scanning the same card several times might yield different recognition errors – that happens with CardScan as well.ĬardMinder’s card management functionality is very basic. Fortunately, names and emails are usually well recognized and that’s the most important thing (to me!). Like most business cards scanners, in difficult areas (company name, address, websites) the text recognition is prone to errors, and depending on the card designs, you might have to fix stuff often. It is in fact 2.5X faster than something like CardScan Executive (0.27 cards/sec in color and about 0.54 cards/sec in color). It will also communicate with external applications like Outlook, Atc… Just like for regular documents, scanning business cards is really fast (0.7 cards/sec). To scan/archive business cards, there is a software called CardMinder that will handle the business cards scanning, recognition and archiving. That said, I still needed to use the flatbed scanner from time to time, for stuff that would not fit in the ScanSnap S1500. As I said above, the document feeder has inherent limitations of thickness, but during the weeks that I have used the ScanSnap, it worked for the overwhelming majority of documents. For simple digitization of paper content, I’ve never seen a consumer-level scanner go this fast in full 300dpi color and double-sided. If you want to quickly scan documents, this is the scanner to get. I’ve used other consumer-level ADF scanners before and this one performs well. Ironically, a clean stack of paper tends to jam the ADF more. stacks of used documents tends to occupy more space because it’s not flat anymore. The auto document feeder (ADF) is said to be able to receive 50 pages, but note that it’s true only for 50 pages of clean, perfectly flat, paper. A flatbed scanner that has an ADF is also great, but won’t scan business cards. That said, a flatbed scanner can scan things like papers with staples on them. inserting paper on a flatbed scanner can take nearly as much time as scanning itself. The presence of a sheet feeder (or automatic document feeder – ADF) only adds to the overall process’ speed. Scanning in 600dpi in color (single-sided) was three times as slow however, with a time of 3mn and 15seconds for the same 20 pages. Interestingly enough, scanning in 300dpi in color or at 150dpi in grayscale did not change the scanning speed. 20ppm is when scanning in single-sided mode, double-sided scan runs at no extra cost and would yield 40ppm. During my test I was able to consistently scan twenty (letter) pages at speeds of 20 pages per minute (in 54 seconds to be exact). Most brand scanners produce images that are very decent (for an “archiving” use), so speed is often the first thing that users will seek from a scanner.
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