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Card Scanner
Posted: 27 Nov 06 3:45 AM
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fiogf49gjkf0d Hi,
I'm thinking to get some Business card scanner.
I've seen that some of them developed also a connector to insert data into SLX.
I'm frightened of custom fields and duplicate records.
I do not want to write code to fix bad import, or, even worse, to catch duplicate records.
Did anyone out there experienced something?
Thanks,
Dave. |
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Re: Card Scanner
Posted: 27 Nov 06 10:26 AM
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fiogf49gjkf0d Thanks Ryan!
In fact CardScan seems to be the market leader.
Anyway, I can't understand why they say that "This product is only available in the USA and Canada".
(and I'm in Europe  ) |
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Re: Card Scanner
Posted: 28 Nov 06 9:01 AM
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fiogf49gjkf0d We are dealing with an issue with CardScan but they are working to fix it. I'm holding judgment and giving their support a chance to take care of us. When it worked as it was supposed to it worked very well. It's still OCR software and so there are still issues there but that's a given, especially with todays business cards being so heavily graphic design based. For more plain cards it works awesome. I was impressed with how well it did in some cases. |
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Re: Card Scanner
Posted: 28 Nov 06 9:08 AM
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fiogf49gjkf0d I went through a demo with CardScan at the Summit. We had looked at it before but the demo really sold me. We are getting one very soon where we'll setup a 'Scan Station' for people to scan business cards.
The fact that it integrates with SLX directly is a huge selling point.
John G. |
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Re: Card Scanner
Posted: 19 Jan 12 3:48 PM
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fiogf49gjkf0d We have a Corex CardScan machine and they want to put those into SLX. The link said that DYMO took them over in 2008. Does SLX still have anything that integrates with CardScan?
I called DYMO and they discontinued "CardScan for SalesLogix". |
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Re: Card Scanner
Posted: 20 Jan 12 1:31 AM
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fiogf49gjkf0d I think it was discontinued before Dymo bought Corex, though Dymo may have decided to stop supporting the existing users, if there were any left. These days, you really need a SmartPhone with a good camera and an card-reading OCR app that will sync to Outlook, if not SalesLogix itself.
It's been many years now, but I was the guy who wrote most of CardScan for SalesLogix - the SalesLogix part of it, anyway - and I can probably tell you now without much worry over the original NDA terms that the reason it failed was an extremely esoteric bug in the SalesLogix 6.2.x OLEDB provider. This bug crashed .NET 2.0 DLL's that tried to open ADO connections to the provider from spawned threads (as opposed to opening them from the main calling process). You could open the connection, but as soon as you tried to do anything with it, BAM, access violation.
I couldn't even get the folks in Scottsdale to understand what I was telling them, much less believe me when I said it was a serious problem that was derailing a significant product initiative. I also had to beg the Corex people for weeks to even admit to me that they were instantiating the DLL in a spawned thread, they were so close-to-the-vest about everything. I don't blame Corex so much, because they'd apparently been burned by disclosing too much info about their APIs in the past, but either way, by the time I had it figured out it was just too late. They were completely disillusioned with the whole thing, and they naturally didn't want to "rewrite" their flagship product to work around such a stupidly obscure bug, particularly given that SalesLogix was the only CRM product with that problem. However, they eventually did just that (I suspect it was just a minor change in the calling logic), and it worked a lot better after that... but by then everybody really just wanted out, including me.
Dymo/Corex scanners are still great little devices if you have a lot of cards to scan, like if you've put out a big jar at a trade show and have someone back at the office willing to feed them all into a scanner. But again, for most people, SmartPhones with OCR apps are the way to go now. Don't get too heavily invested in old technology! Rarely is that good for business. |
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Better way to collect business cards
Posted: 05 Sep 12 1:36 AM
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fiogf49gjkf0d
I use Android phone to collect more thousands of business cards now. So easy and simple. You can access the contacts everywhere without Internet connection by using CardFila for Mobile (iPhone or Android phones)
You can visit http://CardFila.com to find more information
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