Anyone with a pile of business cards can now transfer the information on them
into a PC with CardScan, a scanner the size of a paperback book that plugs into
your PC. It sucks in the business cards and converts the print image into plain
text. The software then sorts name, address, phone, fax and e-mail data into
separate fields so that the information can easily be stored in a database.
CardScan is on sale in Europe for around 拢200.
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