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I am looking for a business card reader that will put all the information into an excel spreadsheet.?

Ideally this reader would scan the card, and put it both into an excel spread sheet or MS Outlook (my choice). I think I mentioned that I want to build some mailing lists, but not have them be all in my Outlook database. So, an excel spread sheet will house these individual lists. Any ideas?

Answer:

If such a thing exists, it would likely be very expensive and not work very well. The problem isn't in reading the cards but making sense out of what is read. Business cards are far from standard in appearance and content. By the time that you scan in the cards, even automatically, and then proof read what the Optical Character Reader has created from the scans, you could probably have typed in the information more accurately. I have done quite a bit of OCR work in the past and the greatest time consumer was proof reading.

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