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Re: Turn Your Business Card Collection into a Valuable Online Database

ardi — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 01:44:11 -0000

thanks for your share

Re: Turn Your Business Card Collection into a Valuable Online Database

Donny — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:58:29 -0000

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

Re: Turn Your Business Card Collection into a Valuable Online Database

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Re: Turn Your Business Card Collection into a Valuable Online Database

Darren — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:53:04 -0000

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.

Re: Turn Your Business Card Collection into a Valuable Online Database

Vatroslav Mihalj — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 03:36:20 -0000

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?

Re: Turn Your Business Card Collection into a Valuable Online Database

MrDunc — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 17:01:10 -0000

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.

Re: Turn Your Business Card Collection into a Valuable Online Database

morton hurff — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:37:51 -0000

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.

Re: Turn Your Business Card Collection into a Valuable Online Database

Doug — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:30:49 -0000

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.

Re: Turn Your Business Card Collection into a Valuable Online Database

Anna Young — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:29:36 -0000

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.

Re: Turn Your Business Card Collection into a Valuable Online Database

MarkW — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:07:17 -0000

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.

Re: Turn Your Business Card Collection into a Valuable Online Database

Evan W. — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:03:21 -0000

I'm all over that. Looks like a great tool...