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| Thread ID: 110634 | 2010-06-25 06:32:00 | Business Cards - Keeping track | John W (523) | Press F1 |
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| 1113512 | 2010-06-25 06:32:00 | Hi there Im getting a pile of business card building up and I was wondering if anyone has thought of a way of keeping track of them. I would need that info while on the road, like a commercial traveller would, and an easy way to scan, list them. Surely someone's been down that road before and come up with a better system them keeping them alphabetically in a pile. Thanks John in Mosgiel. |
John W (523) | ||
| 1113513 | 2010-06-25 06:36:00 | Buy an organiser or Ipod, or something. Then use something like Outlook to add them to contacts. Then sync them. Then you can carry them with you. Or add them to your mobile, (if it has contacts), if you've got one | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1113514 | 2010-06-25 06:39:00 | That means an awful lot of typing initially. Be better if I could scan the card, give the image a title, then view them A-Z as required. |
John W (523) | ||
| 1113515 | 2010-06-25 06:41:00 | And what are you going to put them on after that?? It maybe alright scanning them, but what if whatever youre going to put them on doesnt support pics? With some programs, you can add pics to the contacts after you've typed them in | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1113516 | 2010-06-25 07:51:00 | A photo album and stuff them inside. | Sweep (90) | ||
| 1113517 | 2010-06-25 08:06:00 | Maybe check with the company/printers who made (printed) the cards if their were any, or current images saved to a pc. Then maybe transfer/upload/save on your pc or online... Or try scanning and uploading to edit with a online OCR program - e.g. Google Docs as noted here... (www.labnol.org) |
kahawai chaser (3545) | ||
| 1113518 | 2010-06-25 08:09:00 | Just do it the old fashion way and put them into a folder like this: Business Card File 96 Cards (www.warehousestationery.co.nz). | Jen (38) | ||
| 1113519 | 2010-06-25 08:59:00 | And what are you going to put them on after that?? It maybe alright scanning them, but what if whatever youre going to put them on doesnt support pics? With some programs, you can add pics to the contacts after you've typed them in OCR them and then add them to your contacts via the PC. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 1113520 | 2010-06-25 09:12:00 | There are scanner applications for use with almost any iPhone or Android device out there which will do OCR for you. Just take a photo of the business card and the rest is history :) | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1113521 | 2010-06-25 21:49:00 | You can get small business card scanners which you can plug into a laptop/PC quite cheap. I just chuck mine into one of those old-fashioned folders Jen suggested (in fact, it might be the same one!!!) | somebody (208) | ||
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