CARDED

uExpress, October, 2004 by Bob Schwabach

Several years ago one of us wanted to have new business cards made up to identify himself as "Some Guy I Met at a Trade Show." That's because anybody who's been to a trade show knows you can collect a hundred business cards, but later you can't remember who those people are or what to do with the cards. We have a solution.

It's the new CardScan from Corex. We have covered this product for a dozen years or so, and in its earlier version it worked OK, though it was hard to jump up and down about it. But this one is the cat's silk pajamas. It's about the size of two decks of cards, weighs less than half a pound, and can scan 40 business cards a minute.

The software is able to sort the information on the cards and separate company names from personal names from...