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Summary: Where is the Macintosh version?
Review: ...I guess if enough people complain... :-)
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Summary: POOR AFTER SALES SERVICE
Review: I have been disappointed with the Corex CardScan Executive. While ads claim the business card scanner will read business cards and then enable the user to import the data into other software applications, I have not had this experience.I purchased the unit and followed the instructions for the set up. During the set up, the user must test the unit by scanning a business card into the scanner. My unit would not pull the business card over the scanner. I re-installed the software, tried again without success. I contacted Corex customer service, and was given instructions on testing the scanning device. The results of the test indicated the unit was defective. I was instructed to return the unit, at my expense, to Corex customer service in Germany. I had to pay shipping plus customs clearance fees. After the scanner was 'repaired' it was returned to me. Again, I had to pay customs charges in Thailand. Upon installing the unit, again it would not pull the card through the scanner. Running the same tests, it appeared I had the same or another defective unit. I contacted Corex in the USA, and requested a new system be shipped to me. I received a nice note from Corex customer service with installation instructions, but no acknowledgement of my request. Buy from Corex with caution, they do not support their products. Buyer Beware!
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Summary: POOR AFTER SALES SERVICE
Review: I have been disappointed with the Corex CardScan Executive. While ads claim the business card scanner will read business cards and then enable the user to import the data into other software applications, I have not had this experience. I purchased the unit and followed the instructions for the set up. During the set up, the user must test the unit by scanning a business card into the scanner. My unit would not pull the business card over the scanner. I re-installed the software, tried again without success. I contacted Corex customer service, and was given instructions on testing the scanning device. The results of the test indicated the unit was defective. I was instructed to return the unit, at my expense, to Corex customer service in Germany. I had to pay shipping plus customs clearance fees. After the scanner was 'repaired' it was returned to me. Again, I had to pay customs charges in Thailand. Upon installing the unit, again it would not pull the card through the scanner. Running the same tests, it appeared I had the same or another defective unit. I contacted Corex in the USA, and requested a new system be shipped to me. I received a nice note from Corex customer service with installation instructions, but no acknowledgement of my request. Buy from Corex with caution, they do not support their products. Buyer Beware!
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Summary: Great concept, great software, useful scanner
Review: I was originally very excited about this product and purchased two, one for myself and one for my brother. The CardScan will enable you to scan most of your business cards and save them in your system, thus having it all at your fingertips. The software is great, allowing you to assign categories to all the contacts, to search for contacts in various ways, and allowing export/import/transfer of data to and from PIMs, utility programs and even to PDAs. I use Outlook at work but I find the CardScan software to be more powerful for contact management. The scanner works well most of the time. With the Auto Scan feature you can set your cards down and, if all goes right, come back later to verify the information. Cards are rapidly read and the images stored until you verify the accurate placement of the card information into the software fields. This leads me to one of the major problems with the CardScan. Understandably it's difficult to account for all business card formats, with the contact info. being placed in all possible ways. Corex has not fully figured out how to ensure placement of the card info. into the software fields. Only about 50% of the time was most of the info. properly placed. Otherwise you'll have to go through and cut and paste into the correct fields. The CardScan does not always cleanly scan the business cards. The software is designed to allow you to compare the scanned image of the card to the fields to which the info. was assigned. Good idea but doesn't work so well. To verify that the card was read properly, you'll have to keep your scanned cards with you. Of course, once it's verified you can put the cards away for good. Two great features of the CardScan: (1) it allows you to scan the back of the business card and (2) you can make your own entries for those cards that are too difficult to read.
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Summary: OK, but pricey
Review: If you have a box full of business cards that you'd like to get transfered to a computer, this is pretty good. It does a very good job of reading cards, figuring out what is what, even picking up email addresses, etc. The OCR even does a respectable job on handwriting. Other reviewers have complained about the software - I use the built in export to the Palm desktop software and it works great!
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Summary: OK, but pricey
Review: If you have a box full of business cards that you'd like to get transfered to a computer, this is pretty good. It does a very good job of reading cards, figuring out what is what, even picking up email addresses, etc. The OCR even does a respectable job on handwriting. Other reviewers have complained about the software - I use the built in export to the Palm desktop software and it works great!
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Summary: Can be much improved... but good idea
Review: The Corex Card Scanner is a must for anyone going to a trade show or conference where you might come home with an unmanageable number of new contacts' business cards. Everything about the setup was a piece of cake, even on Windows 2000. Hardware connects with a USB connection and all was up and running in minutes. Once set up, you just slip a card into the scanner and watch it convert the graphic information to text. You do have to be careful in this process as the character recognition is not perfect and will often mistitle a field or just read the data incorrectly, but overall, quite accurate. When you verify the information as correct, it keeps the card in the desktop program, both graphically and in labeled text fields. From there, you can seamlessly trasfer data to other programs (including Outlook) with the click of a button. I don't know how I lived without this.
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Summary: This thing is great
Review: The Corex Card Scanner is a must for anyone going to a trade show or conference where you might come home with an unmanageable number of new contacts' business cards. Everything about the setup was a piece of cake, even on Windows 2000. Hardware connects with a USB connection and all was up and running in minutes. Once set up, you just slip a card into the scanner and watch it convert the graphic information to text. You do have to be careful in this process as the character recognition is not perfect and will often mistitle a field or just read the data incorrectly, but overall, quite accurate. When you verify the information as correct, it keeps the card in the desktop program, both graphically and in labeled text fields. From there, you can seamlessly trasfer data to other programs (including Outlook) with the click of a button. I don't know how I lived without this.
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Summary: Can be much improved... but good idea
Review: The scanner was larger than I expected and is flimsy with a bulky adaptor. The main problem is software; it's buggy, not intuitive (Ctr-X is "cut" and "Ctr-V" is "paste"), it is also slow to load the database once you get to about 200 cards. On my NT, some screens did not display properly. Set up of sync with Outlook was way too complicated; it is also not possible to sync with Outlook AND Palm; you have to chose one or the other. I have to sync with Outlook first and then with Palm. On balance, the product is helpful and it does save time, but it can be much much improved from here. I recommend it to those with hundreds of biz cards like me but do not expect too much.
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Summary: Why didn't I get it sooner?
Review: This is an excellent product - easy to set up and very stable; the instructions were straight forward and simple. I had accumulated nearly 1,000 business cards and never got round to entering all of them on my PDA (a Psion 5) or in my Lotus Notes name and address book. Two evening's scanning with the CardScan had them all on board and a quick synchronisation to my PDA completed the job. My only major complaint is that there is no "find and replace" facility to alter telephone codes or make company name changes etc. [...] I have now parted company with my aging Psion 5 and am using the Nokia Communicator. Even with an upgrade to the V6 software, Corex appear to be totally US centric and do not support Symbian (just Palm) so the only way to update my Communicator is to synchronise CardScan with Lotus Notes, then Lotus Notes with the Symbian based Communicator; a convoluted exercise. It's still a great device though - but it could be outstanding...
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