Family reunion.
Besides, the fishing is lousy here, it rains all the time, etc. Whatever it
takes to get people to stop moving here:)
(This from a guy who moved up here from California and now doesn't want
anyone else to)
Ken Powell
Systems Administrator
Clark County Office of Budget and Information Services (OBIS)
Vancouver, Washington
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Voice: (360) 397-6121 x4658
Fax: (360) 759-6001
-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Tuip [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, August 13, 2001 9:38 AM
To: Exchange 5.5 List
Subject: Re: Business card readers.
He works in Washington and goes to Montana to fish?
You gotta explain me that one :)
Martin
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Sent: Monday, August 13, 2001 6:03 PM
Subject: RE: Business card readers.
> I am sold. I have forwarded this thread to the manager. He is off in
Montana
> fishing so I don't expect to hear from him :)
>
> Ken Powell
> Systems Administrator
> Clark County Office of Budget and Information Services (OBIS)
> Vancouver, Washington
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Voice: (360) 397-6121 x4658
> Fax: (360) 759-6001
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, August 13, 2001 9:01 AM
> To: Exchange 5.5 List
> Subject: RE: Business card readers.
>
>
> Oh yea. Every company I have worked in had at least one CardScan in use.
> In fact we just set one up the other day.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, August 13, 2001 8:55 AM
> To: Exchange Discussions
> Subject: RE: Business card readers.
>
>
> Even CLOSE to 90% would be great. As someone pointed out elsewhere, when
> you throw in strange fonts and fancy backgrounds, it is going to lose
> some accuracy.
>
> As Lori pointed out on the Outlook list, Cardscan does seem to be the
> "hands-down" favorite.
>
> I can't believe that there would be this much experience with doing this
> type of thing. I never saw it come up on the list so I figured that
> either no one was interested in doing it or that it did not work.
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Ken Powell
> Systems Administrator
> Clark County Office of Budget and Information Services (OBIS) Vancouver,
> Washington [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Voice: (360) 397-6121 x4658
> Fax: (360) 759-6001
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, August 13, 2001 8:50 AM
> To: Exchange 5.5 List
> Subject: RE: Business card readers.
>
>
> Cardscan is probably the best around.
> The major issue with any of these types of products is in the OCR. Since
> virtually every biz card has different formatting, different fonts, and
> different quality of print, it is quite difficult to get anything above
> about 90% accuracy. Therefore 10 out of every 100 letters or numbers
> will be incorrect. The admin who scans the cards essentially needs to
> visually check every entry for correctness, but it is still a lot faster
> than manually imputing. Works great with Outlook
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, August 13, 2001 8:43 AM
> To: Exchange Discussions
> Subject: RE: Business card readers.
>
>
> Smart A$$!! Duh, I sent that before I really thought about it :) Thanks
> for the quick reply.
>
> How well does it work with Outlook? I see from the site that it works
> with Outlook98 and 2000. I tried to download the demo, but I got an
> "incompatible format" error.
>
> I know that in the past that scanning in information was pretty
> frustrating. Is it an I, i, l or a 1? How good is it at figuring things
> out? And, how well does it get the right information into the correct
> fields? ie: Name, Title, Company, Phone, etc.
>
> This manager won't be back for two weeks and I thought that I would need
> the entire time to find something. You guys are amazing.
>
> Thanks again.
>
> Ken Powell
> Systems Administrator
> Clark County Office of Budget and Information Services (OBIS) Vancouver,
> Washington [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Voice: (360) 397-6121 x4658
> Fax: (360) 759-6001
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, August 13, 2001 8:33 AM
> To: Exchange 5.5 List
> Subject: RE: Business card readers.
>
>
> Ummmm...www.cardscan.com ?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, August 13, 2001 8:28 AM
> To: Exchange Discussions
> Subject: RE: Business card readers.
>
>
> Do you have a website or any information on it?
>
> Ken Powell
> Systems Administrator
> Clark County Office of Budget and Information Services (OBIS) Vancouver,
> Washington [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Voice: (360) 397-6121 x4658
> Fax: (360) 759-6001
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, August 13, 2001 8:26 AM
> To: Exchange 5.5 List
> Subject: RE: Business card readers.
>
>
> try Cardscan..works for me..
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 13 August 2001 16:22
> To: Exchange Discussions
> Subject: Business card readers.
>
>
> I have a manager that collects business cards at an alarming rate and
> wants to have them all entered into a contacts folder. Has anyone had
> any experience with business card readers/scanners and Outlook? I have
> been asked to find out whether these things actually work. In the past I
> have found that scanning and OCR was more of an art than a science.
>
> Any other suggestions would be most welcome as well.
>
> Ken Powell
> Systems Administrator
> Clark County Office of Budget and Information Services (OBIS) Vancouver,
> Washington [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Voice: (360) 397-6121 x4658
> Fax: (360) 759-6001
>
>
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