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PenPower WorldCard Pro Business Card Scanner (Win/Mac)
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Media Type | Business Card |
Scanner Type | Business Card |
Brand | PenPower |
Connectivity Technology | USB |
Resolution | 300 |
Item Weight | 0.17 Kilograms |
Standard Sheet Capacity | 1 |
Minimum System Requirements | Windows 7 |
About this item
- Digitize business cards in seconds. Scan, recognize, and save contact information directly turn business cards into accurate digital format in a few seconds.
- Support multiple languages. Recognize business cards in 24 different languages as well.
- Data exchange. Export/ import contacts to/ from Address Book and then to iPhone/ iPod, Microsoft Entourage; and export to vCard, CSV. Text, HTML, image file format or import from vCard, CSV, WorldCard File.
- Manage business cards efficiently. Complete set of management functions provided for editing of information, assigning multiple categories and also adding of individual information and photos.Search by keyword.
- Quickly and efficiently find your contacts with "Text Search" and "Advanced Search" functions. Clicking on the address or website in card information fields will link to the map and contact's website directly.
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Easy to use | 2.8 | 3.3 | 4.4 | 3.7 | 4.6 | — |
Tech Support | 2.4 | 4.4 | 4.1 | 3.3 | 4.3 | — |
Accuracy | 2.7 | — | 3.2 | 4.1 | 4.3 | — |
User interface | — | 4.1 | 4.4 | — | 4.6 | — |
Sold By | Penpower Inc | CZUR-US | Amazon.com | Ambir | Amazon.com | Ambir |
scanner type | Business Card | Document | Document, Business Card; receipt; photo | ID Card, Insurance Card, Driving License | Document, Receipt | Document |
sheet capacity | 1 | 1 | 50 | — | 50 | — |
paper size | — | 16.5 x 11.7 | 8.5 x 14 | 4.10 x 10 | 2 x 2, 5 x 7, 8.5 x 11, 8.5 x 14.17, 11 x 17 | Up to 4.13 x 10 |
connectivity tech | USB | USB | USB, Wi-Fi | USB | USB | USB |
optical sensor tech | — | CMOS | CIS | — | CIS | — |
media type | Business Card | USB | USB | ID Card, Insurance Card, Driving License | Paper, Business Card, Photo, Receipt, Post Card | ID Card |
resolution | 300 | 1300 | 600 dpi | 600 dpi | 600 | 600 dpi |
Product Description
PenPower WorldCard Cloud Business Card Scanner with Fast Scan Speeds Ideal
Save your Time
PenPower WorldCard Cloud Business Card Scanner provides fast business card digitization through computers or smartphones. It helps you scan a number of business cards in seconds.
High Accuracy
PenPower WorldCard Cloud or Pro comes with a built-in optical character recognition (OCR) technology. PenPower WorldCard business card scanner creates files to conveniently store and backup your data.
Highlight
- OCR technology
- Easy to use
- Support multiple languages
- Time saver
- Synchronization between PC and smartphone
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SynchronizationAutomatic data synchronization between a smartphone and a computer |
Integrate and SyncEasily integrate with Salesforce,MS exchange, office 365, etc. |
In the BoxPenPower WorldCard scanner cloud
PenPower WorldCard scanner pro
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WorldCard Cloud | WorldCard Pro | |
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Customer Reviews |
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Number of Available Devices | Unlimited | One |
Users | One | One |
Scalable to Multiple Users | ✓ | X |
Multi-language Recognition | ✓ | ✓ |
Export to Excel, csv, jpg, vcf, txt, Lotus Notes, ACT! | ✓ | ✓ |
Business Card Input via Scanner | ✓ | ✓ |
Business Card Input via Mobile Phone Camera | ✓ | X |
Support iOS/Android/Web Platforms | ✓ | X |
Support Win/ Mac Platforms | ✓ | ✓ |
Data Storage on Personal Computer | ✓ | ✓ |
WorldCard Cloud | WorldCard Pro | |
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Customer Reviews |
3.4 out of 5 stars
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Data Storage on Mobile Phone / Cloud Server | ✓ | X |
Sync Data Cross Platforms | ✓ | X |
Personal Digital Business Card | ✓ | X |
Software Function Free Upgrade | ✓ | X |
Authority Management (Paid Upgrade) | ✓ | X |
Share Contacts with Team (Paid Upgrade) | ✓ | X |
Scan for Manager or Colleagues (Paid Upgrade) | ✓ | X |
Export to Office 365 | ✓ | Subscription |
Export to Salesforce | ✓ | Subscription |
Program | 1 user / 1 year subscription included , -- Subscription fee: USD 5 / user per month. | 1 user for 1 computer installed |
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Product information
Product Dimensions | 12 x 12 x 6 inches |
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Item Weight | 6 ounces |
ASIN | B0075323W8 |
Item model number | WCU02A |
Customer Reviews |
3.4 out of 5 stars |
Best Sellers Rank | #35,617 in Office Products (See Top 100 in Office Products) #1 in Business Card Scanners |
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer | No |
Date First Available | January 14, 2012 |
Manufacturer | Penpower Inc. |
Language | English |
Country of Origin | Taiwan |
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Customers like the value and portability of the scanner. However, some disagree on quality, performance, ease of use, speed, readability, and accuracy.
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Customers like the value of the scanner. They mention it's a great product for the price, has great quality, and is a useful purchase. Some say that it'll save them money and time.
"...However, for me... still worth the buy for the orgainzation and other things you can do with your contacts once they are entered...." Read more
"...Overall, great product for the money." Read more
"...Exporting to Outlook was also pretty easy. Good product for the money." Read more
"...needs a bit of corrections here and there, but overall is a very good product!" Read more
Customers find the portability of the scanner to be a plus. They say it's easy to travel with, and the compact design is attractive. Some customers also mention that the cord tucked into the back is ideal for traveling. Overall, most are satisfied with the port ability of the product.
"...The unit is small and installs pretty easily...." Read more
"...However, for all its faults, this is the best solution for large volumes of cards (from trade shows, for example) that I have found." Read more
"...Overall, it is quite portable, which is a nice feature if you want to take it with you to a trade show, or the like." Read more
"...The USB cord tucked into the back is ideal for traveling. Instructions were clear and easy to understand. Hey, what's not to love?" Read more
Customers are mixed about the quality of the scanner. Some mention it's a super nice scanner that works great scanning a huge stack of business cards, with a great ability to read text on cards. However, others say that it can be tricky to scan cards straight, it wouldn't scan the business card content and export them to Outlook contacts, and that the software navigation is not good. The scanning resolution is just ok.
"...to make some corrections every now and then, it still saves me a significant amount of time versus inputting the business card manually...." Read more
"...So yeah...I really wanted to be able to use this. But it barely feeds cards and the software is terrible. So it's going back...." Read more
"...and correct them pretty quickly.Overall, it's the easiest card scanner I've used...." Read more
"...The only two challenges is that cards do not always go in evenly (resulting in the image being slanted) and the cards may jam or not go in..." Read more
Customers are mixed about the performance of the scanner. Some mention that it works well for them, while others say that it doesn't work. Some say that the OCR works well, while other say that they can't get it to work.
"...It was easy to setup, works as it should, and has minimal errors.Setup:The setup is pretty easy and straight forward...." Read more
"...main contact window where you have to enter things such as Notes, they don't work. You get a beep error...." Read more
"...The OCR function works very well but depending on the design, layout and fonts on any specific card you may have to spend an additional minute..." Read more
"...When I try to export CSV, nothing happens at all, not even an error.In addition, the activation process is eccentric and difficult...." Read more
Customers are mixed about the ease of use of the scanner. Some mention that it's easy and fast to set up and use, with clear instructions. Others say that it is not intuitive nor user friendly, and the quick start instructions are not good enough.
"...It was easy to setup, works as it should, and has minimal errors.Setup:The setup is pretty easy and straight forward...." Read more
"...Since you can't batch edit contacts that are scanned, and you can't use Command-V in the notes, this is not even possible...." Read more
"...is well designed for identifying these problems and made resolving them very easy...." Read more
"...The 80-page manual is highly detailed and reasonably helpful, but hard to find. It appears when you click Index under the Help menu...." Read more
Customers are mixed about the speed of the scanner. Some mention it's easy and fast to use, while others say it'll take a long time to get ready to scan and scan a card.
"...The cards scan very quickly and you have the option of capturing both sides of a card as needed...." Read more
"...It is fast, but the cards don't eject cleanly from the back. This means unexpectedly, the process will stop wit jammed cards...." Read more
"...Very time consuming." Read more
"...But once you get used to it, you can scan a bunch of cards pretty quickly.Name recognition is good, but not perfect...." Read more
Customers are mixed about the readability of the scanner. Some mention that it does a good job reading the info, while others say that it misses things and spells things wrong. They also say that the images are difficult to interpret and that it has trouble reading company names when they are in a logo.
"...fault, more often than not, it's poor quality images that are difficult to interpret (O's and zeros often mixed up, etc.)...." Read more
"...The 80-page manual is highly detailed and reasonably helpful, but hard to find. It appears when you click Index under the Help menu...." Read more
"...Basic functions like copy & paste don't work in the Mac software. Ok, let me qualify that...they work, but only in pop-up dialogs...." Read more
"...In addition, the activation process is eccentric and difficult...." Read more
Customers are mixed about the accuracy of the scanner. Some mention that the software is the most accurate, while others say that it's not very accurate.
"...This device gets the job done. It's accuracy is better than the iPhone App I have been using...." Read more
"...does the work of scanning and OCR'ing business cards, but it isn't accurate enough for my purposes, at least at my present level of skill...." Read more
"...This was by far the best.The accuracy is great, traditionally styled business cards go in with 100% accuracy nearly everytime...." Read more
"...card stock, and even the supplied card carrier for these does not feed smoothly...." Read more
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Setup:
The setup is pretty easy and straight forward. Install the provided software (and activate it), plug in the scanner, calibrate it, and start scanning your cards. No OCR technology is perfect so it's important to check the data after the scan to make sure it's accurate. I know that's not ideal, but there is not (and may never be) an OCR software that is 100% accurate.
Reason for 5 stars:
It's very rare that I give 5 stars to a product that doesn't work 100% of the time but here is why. I am very familiar with OCR technologies and the software that is available in the marketplace and not a single one will be perfect. It's not the software's fault, it's the images you're scanning. It would have to be the most crystal clear image with no pictures or fancy fonts to get a perfect read. After testing out several different business card readers, this one is by far the best and most reliable. It is the best of the best (even though it's not perfect) which gets it 5 stars (I'm open to comments with your thoughts on giving 5 stars to a product that isn't perfect but is the best of its kind).
My Background:
I am a data consultant and work with large volumes of vendor invoices (up to hundreds of thousands for some projects) and run Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to turn the images into text-searchable documents. I have spent countless days researching the best OCR software available to use at my company, and the best one still isn't all that great. It's not always the software's fault, more often than not, it's poor quality images that are difficult to interpret (O's and zeros often mixed up, etc.). It's crazy to think that in 2016 there still isn't a way to reliably convert images into text-searchable documents, but hey, we do the best we can. Because of this, I knew going into this purchase that unless the business card was white, contained no images, and used a very basic font that it would likely have some errors.
Overall I am very happy with this scanner. So far it is the best one I have tried and does a pretty good job. While I may have to make some corrections every now and then, it still saves me a significant amount of time versus inputting the business card manually. If you are looking to purchase a business card scanner then I would highly recommend this one. There are limitations with all OCR programs, but this one performs the best and will have the fewest errors.
Writing in-depth reviews to help other shoppers has become a hobby of mine. If you found this review helpful please mark as helpful below. Also, feel free to ask any questions and I will answer them for you!
Reviewed in the United States on June 11, 2016
Setup:
The setup is pretty easy and straight forward. Install the provided software (and activate it), plug in the scanner, calibrate it, and start scanning your cards. No OCR technology is perfect so it's important to check the data after the scan to make sure it's accurate. I know that's not ideal, but there is not (and may never be) an OCR software that is 100% accurate.
Reason for 5 stars:
It's very rare that I give 5 stars to a product that doesn't work 100% of the time but here is why. I am very familiar with OCR technologies and the software that is available in the marketplace and not a single one will be perfect. It's not the software's fault, it's the images you're scanning. It would have to be the most crystal clear image with no pictures or fancy fonts to get a perfect read. After testing out several different business card readers, this one is by far the best and most reliable. It is the best of the best (even though it's not perfect) which gets it 5 stars (I'm open to comments with your thoughts on giving 5 stars to a product that isn't perfect but is the best of its kind).
My Background:
I am a data consultant and work with large volumes of vendor invoices (up to hundreds of thousands for some projects) and run Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to turn the images into text-searchable documents. I have spent countless days researching the best OCR software available to use at my company, and the best one still isn't all that great. It's not always the software's fault, more often than not, it's poor quality images that are difficult to interpret (O's and zeros often mixed up, etc.). It's crazy to think that in 2016 there still isn't a way to reliably convert images into text-searchable documents, but hey, we do the best we can. Because of this, I knew going into this purchase that unless the business card was white, contained no images, and used a very basic font that it would likely have some errors.
Overall I am very happy with this scanner. So far it is the best one I have tried and does a pretty good job. While I may have to make some corrections every now and then, it still saves me a significant amount of time versus inputting the business card manually. If you are looking to purchase a business card scanner then I would highly recommend this one. There are limitations with all OCR programs, but this one performs the best and will have the fewest errors.
Writing in-depth reviews to help other shoppers has become a hobby of mine. If you found this review helpful please mark as helpful below. Also, feel free to ask any questions and I will answer them for you!
As others have pointed out, the USB cord's connection point to the device is within the cavity where cards exit at the back. This was a terrible idea, as it constantly gets in the way of cards, preventing them from feeding. Even if that problem didn't exist, the device is very finicky at feeding cards. Since it doesn't sense the edge of the card, if it doesn't pick the card up right away when it tries to feed it (happens often), the scan only shows half the card. The software should be able to overcome that, but it doesn't.
Basic functions like copy & paste don't work in the Mac software. Ok, let me qualify that...they work, but only in pop-up dialogs. When you are inside a contact and click on the address, it pops up a dialog box to break down the address into street, city, etc. Command-C and Command-V work there. But in the main contact window where you have to enter things such as Notes, they don't work. You get a beep error. Sure, you can right-click, but this is an interface failure.
I like to add notes to contacts indicating where I collected the card. Since you can't batch edit contacts that are scanned, and you can't use Command-V in the notes, this is not even possible. I could export to a CSV and do it there.....but what a stupid workaround to something that should be simple. That then requires I import the CSV into Contacts instead of using the cleaner option of a direct sync to Contacts, which ensures information isn't lost.
In terms of other aspects, the fact that the software insists on using pop-ups to edit so many of the items within a contact makes edits extremely tedious. This software actually makes the process of editing a scanned card LONGER and MORE WORK than just manually entering the card info into the native Contacts or MS Outlook for Mac. For software to make something more difficult and time-consuming than the manual process really is an achievement in terrible UIs.
So yeah...I really wanted to be able to use this. But it barely feeds cards and the software is terrible. So it's going back. I haven't seen great reviews of the alternatives, which leaves me thoroughly disappointed.
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