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I was looking for a business card scanner to help digitize my collection of cards. Based on my background (see below) I knew that there wouldn't be a perfect scanner out there and would have to find the best one available. I have tried a couple out now and this one is the best so far. It was easy to setup, works as it should, and has minimal errors.Setup:The setup is pretty easy and straight forward. Install the provided software (and activate it), plug in the scanner, calibrate it, and start scanning your cards. No OCR technology is perfect so it's important to check the data after the scan to make sure it's accurate. I know that's not ideal, but there is not (and may never be) an OCR software that is 100% accurate.Reason for 5 stars:It's very rare that I give 5 stars to a product that doesn't work 100% of the time but here is why. I am very familiar with OCR technologies and the software that is available in the marketplace and not a single one will be perfect. It's not the software's fault, it's the images you're scanning. It would have to be the most crystal clear image with no pictures or fancy fonts to get a perfect read. After testing out several different business card readers, this one is by far the best and most reliable. It is the best of the best (even though it's not perfect) which gets it 5 stars (I'm open to comments with your thoughts on giving 5 stars to a product that isn't perfect but is the best of its kind).My Background:I am a data consultant and work with large volumes of vendor invoices (up to hundreds of thousands for some projects) and run Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to turn the images into text-searchable documents. I have spent countless days researching the best OCR software available to use at my company, and the best one still isn't all that great. It's not always the software's fault, more often than not, it's poor quality images that are difficult to interpret (O's and zeros often mixed up, etc.). It's crazy to think that in 2016 there still isn't a way to reliably convert images into text-searchable documents, but hey, we do the best we can. Because of this, I knew going into this purchase that unless the business card was white, contained no images, and used a very basic font that it would likely have some errors.Overall I am very happy with this scanner. So far it is the best one I have tried and does a pretty good job. While I may have to make some corrections every now and then, it still saves me a significant amount of time versus inputting the business card manually. If you are looking to purchase a business card scanner then I would highly recommend this one. There are limitations with all OCR programs, but this one performs the best and will have the fewest errors.Writing in-depth reviews to help other shoppers has become a hobby of mine. If you found this review helpful please mark as helpful below. Also, feel free to ask any questions and I will answer them for you!

I really wanted to like this. I really wanted it to at least be "good enough" that I could use it. I didn't need it to be great...just "good enough". Sadly, it failed even to meet those expectations.As others have pointed out, the USB cord's connection point to the device is within the cavity where cards exit at the back. This was a terrible idea, as it constantly gets in the way of cards, preventing them from feeding. Even if that problem didn't exist, the device is very finicky at feeding cards. Since it doesn't sense the edge of the card, if it doesn't pick the card up right away when it tries to feed it (happens often), the scan only shows half the card. The software should be able to overcome that, but it doesn't.Basic functions like copy & paste don't work in the Mac software. Ok, let me qualify that...they work, but only in pop-up dialogs. When you are inside a contact and click on the address, it pops up a dialog box to break down the address into street, city, etc. Command-C and Command-V work there. But in the main contact window where you have to enter things such as Notes, they don't work. You get a beep error. Sure, you can right-click, but this is an interface failure.I like to add notes to contacts indicating where I collected the card. Since you can't batch edit contacts that are scanned, and you can't use Command-V in the notes, this is not even possible. I could export to a CSV and do it there.....but what a stupid workaround to something that should be simple. That then requires I import the CSV into Contacts instead of using the cleaner option of a direct sync to Contacts, which ensures information isn't lost.In terms of other aspects, the fact that the software insists on using pop-ups to edit so many of the items within a contact makes edits extremely tedious. This software actually makes the process of editing a scanned card LONGER and MORE WORK than just manually entering the card info into the native Contacts or MS Outlook for Mac. For software to make something more difficult and time-consuming than the manual process really is an achievement in terrible UIs.So yeah...I really wanted to be able to use this. But it barely feeds cards and the software is terrible. So it's going back. I haven't seen great reviews of the alternatives, which leaves me thoroughly disappointed.