1.1 About CardMinder
CardMinder User’s Guide 2
About CardMinder
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1.1 About CardMinder
CardMinder is an application that scans your business cards with an image scanner and converts
them into the address database. CardMinder allows quick scanning, image recognition, and data-
base management for all your office scanning needs.
Using an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) engine and sharing recognized data with a PIM
(Personal Information Manager), CardMinder is able to...
•Scan business cards and convert them into database records
•Recognize the characters on the business card and send the character data to a PIM (Personal
Information Manager)
•Copy scanned business card’s data to removable media together with the viewer application so
as to use the data on other personal computers
•Link related files to respective contacts (records in the address database)
•Easily find a record (contact) extracted from a business card image, using simple keyword
searches
Extracted data
Business card data
PIM window (Microsoft Outlook for example):
Extracted data
CardMinder window:
"Here gives an illustration of the S300 as an example.