Corex Updates Business Card Scanning Software CardScan Ivy Boasts Higher Accuracy, Self-Updating Address Book Eric Grevstad
Mon 12/2/02 -- For years, Corex Technologies's CardScan hardware and software solutions have helped busy business travelers turn pockets full of business cards into usable customer contacts and database entries. The company's new CardScan Ivy software (version 6.0.4) takes specialized business-card scanning even further, offering a self-updating, interactive address book that not only adds new cards to the database but takes care of chasing down new or updated contacts, automatically sending quarterly e-mails asking associates to confirm or update their information. You can accept or reject changes with a click of the mouse.
While the CardScan software has always synchronized text info from business cards with Microsoft Outlook, the new version can save scanned images of cards in Outlook as well. Improved export features make it easier and faster to save a backup contact database to the Web and access it from anywhere, while enhanced scanning accuracy and a completely rebuilt synchronization engine with import wizards help get data into more than 30 popular contact managers such as Act as well as Palm and Pocket PC handhelds.
A bundle of CardScan Ivy with the CardScan 600c color business-card scanner is $299; a version of the CardScan 6 software that works with any TWAIN scanner is $79, with the 6.0.4 upgrade offered free to registered CardScan 6 users.
