1.1 About CardMinder
CardMinder User’s Guide 2
About CardMinder
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1.1 About CardMinder
CardMinder is an application that scans your business cards with an image scanner and converts
them into the address database. CardMinder allows quick scanning, image recognition, and data-
base management for all your office scanning needs.
Using an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) engine and sharing recognized data with a PIM
(Personal Information Manager), CardMinder is able to...
• Scan business cards and convert them into database records
• Recognize the characters on the business card and send the character data to a PIM (Personal
Information Manager)
• Copy scanned business card’s data to removable media together with the viewer application so
as to use the data on other personal computers
• Link related files to respective contacts (records in the address database)
• Easily find a record (contact) extracted from a business card image, using simple keyword
searches
Extracted data
Business card data
PIM window (Microsoft Outlook for example):
Extracted data
CardMinder window:
"Here gives an illustration of the S300 as an example.