PenPower WorldCard Pro Business Card Scanner (Win/Mac)

Bought this product to deal with my boss's ever mounting pile of business cards. Very easy to set up. Scanning the cards was quicker than I thought. I would say 7 out of 10 cards scanned without needing any editing - any changes were small anyway, there was never any need to retype the whole card. As previous reviewers have noted the scanner doesn't cope well with heavily coloured cards or those with a non-standard layout. The process was much quicker though than manually typing in all the cards. Transferring the info to Outlook was a doddle too. Can't recommend this product enough.

Much better than any other card scanner I have used before. They will never be perfect but the interface on this is good.Pro's:Good interfacePlays nicely with Outlook and directly exports to itLogo copying feature is greatFast - I did 80 cards in about and hour and 15 mins with correctionsSmall footprintCons:Doesn't clean up phone numbers with odd characters like '/' or '-' between numbers. Maybe I'm wrong, but will need to rely on my phone ignoring these when dialling?Some slightly larger cards will need to be cut down but this is fairly rare.Doesn't recognise twitter of skype symbols on business cards and will only pick these up if labelled 'Twitter' or 'Skype'. Again maybe I'm wrong and there is a feature in the user defined fields section to add symbols? Anyone?All in all, fairly minor niggles and thius will get a lot of use on my desk and allow me to turf out boxes of business cards.

I spend my life travelling and collect large piles of business cards that I never get around to organising, let alone recording. This sounded great and the reviews excellent.Well, not for me. It works, sporadically, after a fashion: I have managed to get half a dozen cards into my contacts - but the software crashes over half the time and ends up being more effort than hand entering the data. It often says "paper jam", with the most standard of cards, and then I have to close it all down and start again. Sometimes it reads the card before the software is ready and other times won't read the card at all. The interface is clunky, often counter-intuitive and doesn't always do what it says it's going to do. The help system is very poor.I couldn't find serious online help to sort out or upgrade the software, if any upgrades exist.It claims Mac compatibility. I use a MacBook Pro with OS X (Yosemite) and, at least for me, this was a disastrous purchase. My dreams of feeding a pile of cards into a clever machine were cruelly shattered. OK, over-dramatic, I have a life. However, if this is one of the best in its class, goodness knows what the others are like - maybe they eat your cards and spit out obscenities into your contacts. At least that would make me laugh.

Dreaded the idea of going to an exhibition and having deal with the business card aftermath. Searched for several options and the Penpower Card pro had best ratings. Fast and easy to install, even easier to use. OCR is far from perfect, so be ready for some adjusting of details, this is extremely intuitive and easy - it will still save you lads of time. Odd fonts and fancy layouts will require checking the details. You need to type in thick or large cards. Great feature to be able to upload all details to Salesforce.

I bought this based on comparative ratings from others - nothing to compare it with myself.So far, I've scanned about 400 cards. The scanner is sort of OK but there are a couple of problems (are they generic or specific to this scanner - don't know):1. there's very little leeway for anything different to a normal business card size and shape - I had to cut a few larger cards and was unable to scan cards that folded over. Not a big issue because most cards are standard size and shape (but maybe 5% of cards in the travel industry are not standard!)2. the OCR capability is good but can get caught out quite easily. You need to be very diligent when correcting errors. I'm only caring about person name, company name, email address and telephone number (so not correcting fax numbers or postal addresses) - I reckon that a decent typist would have the job done and dusted typing from the cards in half the time that it takes to scan and correct the errors.Having said that, there's something nice about having an image of the card stored along with the data so I'll probably persevere.

If you are in a job where you meet lots of people, you will have a pile of Business cards sitting in a corner collecting dust.Therefore, I decided to do something about it and got this card scanner.So far its doing what its suppose to do very well (hardware is well made, but note it is a single-sided scanner which is not a problem for me and the software can prompt for the other side. And the application software is ok for my needs)I had a quick test to see if the scanner can be used with Adobe Acrobat and it can be used.

Of the 160+ cards I have scanned so far, I would say 90% need a small amend - but that is almost always down to the card only have a logo rather than a company name. Scans are clear and easy to read, and the software is easy to use. Exports to various formats, including excel, allowing it to be uploaded to our in house online software with ease.Only reason it didn't get a 5 star is because it isn't perfect - but it's close!

Used my for about 250 scans then it stopped working- contacted Worldcard who sent me on an epic fault find mission, try this- try that try a 1000 things then concluded it didn't work, said it was more than a year old so buy a new one- shocking level of service, it was clunky when it worked, the software is out of the ark- youd be better scanning your cards and using OCR into excel.