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Using Card Scan Software to import contacts right from business cards
August 30, 2010, 10:24:03 am
Is there a Card Scanning software that will integrate with CiviCRM, essentially importing a business card into CiviCRM?

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Re: Using Card Scan Software to import contacts right from business cards
August 30, 2010, 11:32:49 am

currently no, but would be great if you can contribute code/sponsorship to make this happen. i suspect there are a few open source packages out there that covert the card scan output to a "csv" like format. this can then feed into civicrm quite nicely via the API

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Re: Using Card Scan Software to import contacts right from business cards
August 30, 2010, 12:42:02 pm
Hi,

Alternatively, might be easier to get a vcard format (fairly standard).

There isn't yet on civicrm a tool to import a contact from a vcard, but something that would be nice.

Otherwise, did try a few scanner, and the result of the OCR wasn't good enough to save time over retyping, but might be better now than a couple of years ago.

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Re: Using Card Scan Software to import contacts right from business cards
August 30, 2010, 01:21:27 pm
Similar experience as Mr X. The client gave us some spreadsheets and then dropped 500+ business cards in our letterbox!! We tried various methods but didn't purchase a dedicated card scanner. Using our existing scanner and OCR it proved easiest to scan to a .doc type document then basically drag elements in to a csv with auxiliary typing for all those bits the OCR couldn't pick up.
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Re: Using Card Scan Software to import contacts right from business cards
March 18, 2014, 07:51:51 am
any progress on this front? 
It looks like there are some apps that work with Salesforce.  Anything out there work with CiviCRM?

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Re: Using Card Scan Software to import contacts right from business cards
March 18, 2014, 08:59:44 am

not heard of any as yet

but i suspect integration with a hardware card scanner with a decent API should not be too hard

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