4.3 Scanning Business Cards

4.3Scanning Business Cards

A ScanSnap product comes with "CardMinder", an application software for managing business card data.

Using CardMinder, you can convert business cards into image data, and create a database of business cards by recognizing their image data using the OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technology.

The following describes how to start CardMinder and how to scan business cards with it.

• For further details, refer to the "CardMinder User’s Guide." If CardMinder is

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already installed on your personal computer, you can browse the User’s Guide

 

 

 

 

by selecting [Start] -> [All Programs] -> [CardMinder] -> [Manual]. (You can

 

 

 

 

also browse the User’s Guide from the "Setup CD-ROM" startup screen sup-

 

 

plied with this scanner.)

•When "CardMinder" is selected from the [Application:] drop-down list on the [Application] tab, the [Save], [File option], [Paper size], and [Compression] tabs will not be shown.

•If ScanSnap Manager is activated after CardMinder is activated, "CardMinder" is automatically selected from the [Application] drop-down list on the [Applica- tion] tab. If ScanSnap Manager is activated after CardMinder is deactivated, the selected application will be reset to previous one.

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