PenPower WorldCard Pro Business Card Scanner for Windows and Mac

good

Its very nice scanner and has all the features which i was looking out for

both the device and the OCR software are brilliant...the only catch is the single workstation licence of the software. Should be at least 2 out of the box..

Software is awesome. Scanning is near to perfect and quick. Searching contact is easy.You can locate address on Google Maps. You can mail directly from this software.

The product failed to work and attempts to return were futile. We tried everything possible, it just does not work. Such a waste of money.Dont buy.

It is definitely value for money purchase

Very useful for marketing people's to make clear data base in a single Scan.

Good productCan improve on data reading

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I've been intrigued with business card scanners for many years. I finally bought this one, on the basis of favorable reviews. I've scanned 15 cards (I probably have 1000), and it works OK, but it's nothing to write home about. So far I've relied on the minimal Quick Guide and the online help to figure out how to use it. An online manual is included, and I'm planning to read it.The unit is small and installs pretty easily. It didn't work for me until I registered my purchase (not a great scheme, since I might be returning it).After I figured out how to scan cards, I scanned some. My cards are from the hospitality and hotel industry, so they feature a lot of graphics and stylized logos as part of the company names. This scanner did NOT handle them well. Usually it just disregarded them.There's a LOT of editing required with the OCR on my cards. Sometimes the OCR is perfect, but usually it messes up the company name and/or address. I will keep it for a while and read the manual, but for now it looks like I will return it to Amazon. I want to keep track of my business card collection, but I'm not ready to spend a lot of time correcting faulty OCR on the information that's on them. It wouldn't be so bad if it got the company names right, but far too often it doesn't.This thing is pretty slick, but it isn't accurate enough for my needs, at least at my present low level of skill in operating it.UPDATE: The day after the above, I looked at the manual and fairly carefully tested the unit on 20 cards.The 80-page manual is highly detailed and reasonably helpful, but hard to find. It appears when you click Index under the Help menu. Pretty strange, IMHO. The content is intelligible English, with a bit of Chinese English thrown in.Card scanning and OCR is only marginally effective. Of 20 cards scanned, only 7 produced good, clear images. Another 8 produced questionable images, typically very low contrast on cards printed in light-colored ink. Five produced illegible images. Yesterday's scans produced 15 good images out of 15. That may have had something to do with my procedures -- today I "calibrated" the scanner, while yesterday I didn't. I regard the scanner as having failed my tests for imaging.OCR isn't very good, either. It works after a fashion, but isn't nearly reliable enough for my needs. Out of 20 cards scanned (some producing sub-optimal images), it correctly OCR'ed 11 names and put them in the correct field in its database. Two of these had minor spelling errors. Out of 20 cards scanned, it only got 3 company names right. Eight more were partially right, and 9 were missed completely. This mostly had to do with company names being part of logos, expressed in graphics rather than standard fonts, etc. Again out of 20 cards scanned, it correctly OCR'ed and categorized 13 addresses; 11 cities, states, and ZIPs; 13 phone numbers; and 10 email addresses. The accuracy of the phone numbers and emails seemed to be good, but I didn't do any testing.The bottom line for me is that this scanner partially 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. I am going to send it back. If you really need a business card database and have the time to correct a lot of OCR errors, it might be a pretty good tool. I am a very busy person without any administrative assistance, so using this device is just out of the question for me.A final word about the the built-in database: I didn't work with it much, but it seems to be flexible and powerful. Apparently it works with a lot of different languages, including those not expressed in Roman alphabets. The problem is populating it with accurate data.

I was looking for a business card scanner to help digitize my collection of cards. Based on my background (see below) I knew that there wouldn't be a perfect scanner out there and would have to find the best one available. I have tried a couple out now and this one is the best so far. It was easy to setup, works as it should, and has minimal errors.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!

This product is worth it so far. My father has the organizational skills of a fly so I bought this for him. Took me a month of off and on work but I've gotten over 700 business cards into the computer and cleared off a good portion of his desk! It's mind numbing work though, scanning each card in and checking to make sure the data is correct, correcting it if it isn't. Dark cards are the worst, they just look completely black and so don't copy anything to the info section. However, on the basic cards with basic font it copies everything 100%. I was honestly expecting it to die after all the cards I've had it scan but it's still going strong. My only complaint is that it automatically sorts by person's name. With over 700 business contacts, needless to say I got a big compliant of 'how the f. am I supposed to know what the guys name is, I just know he works for ____!'. So I took the extra time to switch the name and company name for 300 some cards I had already put in to fix this. If you need to organize your company better this is worth it!

It works! I accumulated over 300 business cards and this did the job far better than the CardCam app on my iphone ever could. The scanner scans images in black and white and the more exotic cards with colorful backgrounds or odd shaped logos will end up needed special care after the scanning is completed. All told, from installation to the scanning of the final card, the whole process took about 2 hours. There are a few problems which keep this from getting 5 stars.1. Cards images are rarely ever scanned properly. As the card feeds into the scanner, the cards tend to swerve to the right or left, creating a cruved image. In most cases, this isn't an issue and the information on the card gets scanned just fine even with this distortion. But, if you want the image to be high quality, this isn't the scanner for you.2. As with many optical character recognition (OCR) software, there is almost always a degree of guesswork when scanning certain fonts. Fonts in frequently used families (e.g. Courier, Times New Roman, etc.) come out fine, but all others are 50/50 at best.3. Cards don't fully eject from the device when the scan is complete. Not a big deal breaker, but when doing large batch scans, it can add a level of inconvenience.Of the 300 scans, a few problems did pop up repeatedly.1. If the image is curved after the scan, phone numbers and other contact information may be affected. (An "i" could be interpreted as an "l" and vice-versa.2. When one phone number is separated from another by a "|", you may get an extra digit in the phone number.3. Phantom company names seems to be a recurring problem. I can't blame the software as it seems to be isolated to cards from individuals with long titles or long department names being mistaken for company names.4. The software is well designed for identifying these problems and made resolving them very easy. I could sort by multiple fields and find the cards for individuals with missing names, missing companies, etc. and correct them pretty quickly.Overall, it's the easiest card scanner I've used. I wish the image quality of scans was better and the card feeder better able to capture the card without distortion.