User manual GENIUS BR600-CARDIRIS

[. . . ] Cardiris, the electronic Rolodex©, puts a final end to all this. You begin by scanning the business cards, thus putting images in a database. Use this management tool to file your business cards and no more stacks of business cards will be lying around in your office!So, all business cards can be thrown away or returned to the owner as soon as they have been archived. [. . . ] Sales executives at an info desk or on the company booth at a trade show, secretaries at a reception desk may be too busy to perform the complete cycle of indexing and OCRing business cards, but surely they can quickly scan the business card of their visitors. . . When they do, Cardiris will keep trace of every single contact they come across with a minimal effort. THREE, IT'S A DATABASE Once your business cards are converted into text placed in data fields, you have a real address database, similar to a cardfile system: the data is directly searchable by any field. Looking up a company, client or prospect is a cinch. 6 Even with very little to go on, say, no more than the first characters of a company name, you are sure to find your contact again instantly. The resulting data is available for export. Cardiris smoothly complements such applications as contact managers, personal information managers (PIMs), general databases or even word processors whose mail merge function allows to print letters, envelopes and labels. Or synchronize your Cardiris database with the contacts stored on your PDA - your Palm organizer, your Pocket PC handheld device etc. Some other clearcut advantages of Cardiris over the paper world are all too obvious: as you are dealing with a database, the information is centralized and available to all your colleagues. Also, databases are easily transportable on CDROM etc. ABOUT THIS GUIDE This guide gives a short introduction to Cardiris. It contains all you need to know to get started with this I. R. I. S. However, this guide does not intend to be a complete user documentation of Cardiris. To make full use of the many advanced capabilities of this software package, it is mandatory that you study the on-line help information closely. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS This is the minimal system configuration required to use Cardiris: q a Pentium based Intel PC or compatible. q the Windows XP, Windows ME, Windows 2000 or Windows 98 operating system. Your Cardiris software may be bundled with a business card scanner. It takes a USB port to connect this scanner. 7 GETTING STARTED INSTALLING THE CARDIRIS SOFTWARE The Cardiris software is delivered exclusively on an autorunning CD-ROM. To install, simply insert the CD-ROM in your CD-ROM drive and wait for the installation program to start running. Follow the on-screen instructions. REGISTER TO VOTE! Dont forget to register your Cardiris licence!Doing so will allow us to keep you informed of future product developments and related I. R. I. S. The registration benefits, including free product support and special offers, are strictly limited to registered users. 8 You can register in many ways: by sending in your registration card or faxing its electronic counterpart, by calling I. R. I. S. during working hours and by filling out a registration form on the I. R. I. S. home page! 9 GETTING STARTED STARTING THE SOFTWARE UP Click on the Cardiris application in the submenu "I. R. I. S. Applications - Cardiris" or click on the shortcut to the Cardiris application on your desktop. IT TAKES TWO TO TANGO The Cardiris application window is displayed. Use the command "Open" under the "File" menu and load the sample database SAMPLE. DAT. [. . . ] Business card reading smoothly complements such applications as contact managers, databases or even word processors whose mail merge function allows to print letters, envelopes and labels! The text result looks for instance like this when you send the results directly to Microsoft Outlook (Express). 20 But as Cardiris is a comprehensive database in its own right, the buck doesnt stop here!You can synchronize an external database (of your handheld computer for instance) and the Cardiris database with equal ease. SCANNING BUSINESS CARDS We could end our short tutorial here. . . (Your Cardiris software may be bundled with a business card scanner. ) 21 GETTING STARTED Select the scanner as image source with the command "Scanner" under the "Settings" menu. You must select a scanning resolution of 400 dpi to recognize business cards successfully!When youre using a flatbed scanner, you can scan several business cards simultaneously on the scanners flatbed and have them segmented by the software. [. . . ]