Or, just use your phone camera to send an image to Evernote, give the entry a suitable tag and you're away. Evernote can search inside the images, so you don't need to index by hand. Works for me.
Anna Young
· 9 months ago
This looks really cool to use...as I look at a stack of business that need to be viewed and sorted. What a great find. Thanks.
Doug
· 9 months ago
Shoeboxed does this as well. It seems that CC is about $.30 per scan (100 cards for $29.95), but Shoeboxed is about $.13 (150 scans for $19.95) for their "Classic" plan.
morton hurff
· 9 months ago
I use Shoeboxed.com to digitize my business cards and send to LinkedIn and Gmail and they do more than just business cards. I actually send them all sorts of documents and they scan them, even though its not really advertised for that. kindof hacky, but it gets me paperless ;) They probably hate (or really love?) me.
They have a demo of the bcard scanning feature on the website, and i know you can do 50 bcard scans without paying. i'd like to see export to vcard but they give workarounds.
mh
MrDunc
· 9 months ago
I find that beamME, an iphone app, is a great solution to this problem. I just beam Vcards (a vcf file) to peoples email or phone with my information for free. The card can beadded to various devices address books or downloaded from e-mail and added in an electronic address book and then uploaded to online address books like Gmail's. If everyone used a similar service this analogue problem would be resolved, maybe one day.
Nicole Simon
· 9 months ago
Many of us do have scanners lying around. Take each card, strike out the information not needed, scan the rest in batches of normal paper size, use an outsourcing service to do data entry and get the data back. :) this works if you have a lot of data not needed, but it may be easier to use a service.
As I deal mainly with social media people, the email address is usually enough to fetch their profiles like on facebook or twitter ;)
Vatroslav Mihalj
· 9 months ago
What about the people whose data you're uploading to who-knows site or social network? It has become quite annoying that some people simply turn in your private data to any site they can find. Who gave you the permission to upload someone else's data to XYZ? You personaly got the card, not avery spammer on this planet (e-mail, voice and SMS spam starts usually coming, although masked as "legit advertizing"). What's next, you have to sign an NDA when receiving a business card, promising you will not report it to spammers?
Darren
· 9 months ago
I find it funny that people say I won't pay for this when I could do it myself etc What they are missing is that it saves you having to worry about backup and if you have a stack of 100 cards its going to save you a bundle of time.
100 cards = cost of scanner $250, time taken to hand scan them all, time to make sure the data scanned is correct etc makes it a no brainer.
Aaron
· 9 months ago
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I never really thought about this possibility and now that I see it I find it all so easy. Access to such a database would be extremely helpful. I am definitely in for this, I got tons of business cards and this would be a good use for them. Donny, avery labels designer
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They have a demo of the bcard scanning feature on the website, and i know you can do 50 bcard scans without paying. i'd like to see export to vcard but they give workarounds.
mh
beam Vcards (a vcf file) to peoples email or phone with my information for free. The card can beadded to various devices address books or downloaded from e-mail and added in an electronic address book and then uploaded to online address books like Gmail's. If everyone used a similar service this analogue problem would be resolved, maybe one day.
As I deal mainly with social media people, the email address is usually enough to fetch their profiles like on facebook or twitter ;)
What they are missing is that it saves you having to worry about backup and if you
have a stack of 100 cards its going to save you a bundle of time.
100 cards = cost of scanner $250, time taken to hand scan them all, time to make sure the
data scanned is correct etc makes it a no brainer.
vela.aaron@gmail.com
Donny, avery labels designer