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3.6 Scanning Business Cards
ScanSnap product comes with "CardMinder", an application software for managing business card
data.
Using CardMinder, you can convert business cards into image data, and create a database of busi-
ness cards by recognizing their image data using the OCR (Optical Character Recognition)
technology.
The following describes how to start CardMinder and how to scan business cards with it.
■ Scanning business cards
The following describes how to create scanned images of business cards on ScanSnap.
In this example, the [SCAN] button on the scanner is used to scan business cards.
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• For further details, refer to the "CardMinder User’s Guide". If CardMinder is
already installed on your PC, you can browse the User’s Guide by selecting
[Programs] - [CardMinder] - [CardMinder User’s Guide] from the Start menu.
(You can also browse the User’s Guide from the "Setup CD-ROM" startup
screen supplied with this scanner.)
• When "CardMinder" is selected at [Application:] under [Application] tab, the
[File option], [Paper size], [Scanning], and [Compression] tabs will not be dis-
played.
• When starting up CardMinder, "CardMinder" is selected at [Application:] under
[Application] tab. When CardMinder is closed, the setting will be reset to previ-
ous one.
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Business cards can also be scanned by starting up CardMinder and clicking the
[Scan] button at the upper left of the window.
For details, refer to the "CardMinder User’s Guide."
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