I sent a test scan when I read about it on your post – worked ok, a few issues (see below), but good enough to get me to sign up for the service.

Lets see how they do when I send a deck of 300 cards I picked up from OMMA last week.

Cheers,
Dean

http://deancollinsblog.blogspot.com/2008/02/scanr.html

I read about scanR on Alec Saunders blog a few days ago, tried it with a single business card.

Worked pretty good – they mislabeled the company name (the ‘logo’ didn’t OCR properly so they just took the email domain which would normally work but in this case didn’t).

For some strange reason they also don’t realize ‘cell phone’ is the same as ‘mobile’.

The VCF file download in the return webpage is a nice touch and makes adding details to outlook a nice touch.

Depending on how good their accuracy levels stay it’s a nice feature and worth the $29 a year.

Would I worry about mistakes and hang on to the card until it was returned in e format, Yeh probably for important cards but until Americans wake up and understand QR codes (see http://www.cognation.net/contact) this is probably a good alternative.

Cheers,
Dean

btw I blurred out identifying information for obvious reasons – also is it just me or do you see scanR selling the contact information to another company as they scan it …. (see link for image sample)

Still happy I spent my $29.

However they have some major issues for cards that are printed 'longways'

pretty much every card I've sent that is printed across the card (eg running parrallel with the short side and meant to be read on the side) is coming back as a failure.

You would think it's pretty simple code to 'flip' the image on it's side before processing.

There are also a few other quirks/feedback that I'd love to give the scanR people as product improvement suggestions but there are no phone numbers on their website.

Cheers,
Dean Collins http://www.Cognation.net

Hope you are getting a 'cut' as I signed up based on your blog.

Tried it with a single business card, worked pretty good – they mislabeled the company name (the 'logo' didn't OCR properly so they just took the email domain which would normally work but in this case didn't).

For some strange reason they also don’t realize 'cell phone' is the same as 'mobile'.

The VCF file download in the return webpage is a nice touch and makes adding details to outlook a nice touch.

Depending on how good their accuracy levels stay it's a nice feature and well worth the $29 a year.

Would I worry about mistakes and hang on to the card until it was returned in e-format, Yeh probably for important cards but until Americans wake up and understand QR codes (see http://www.cognation.net/contact) this is probably a good alternative.

Cheers,
Dean

(btw I blurred out identifying information for obvious reasons – also is it just me or do you see scanR selling the contact information to another company as they scan it …. )

Sample scan here http://deancollinsblog.blogspot.com/2008/02/scanr…

Alas, I don’t carry a pocket camera outside my phone as I like a big camera when I’m actually shooting. Well, I don’t like how big it is, but I like the camera.

Thanks for reviewing scanR on your Nokia N95. As you noticed, the key to success is a quality camera. scanR works well on a lot of phones, but for best results, they need to have an auto-focus lens. A well-focused image is more important than the resolution, so even a 2 megapixel camera will work great if it has auto-focus.