3x5 Card scanners?

[Evan Edwards]

As someone who works with 3x5 cards, I was wondering if anybody knew of or
uses a business card scanner that can take a 3x5 card (or just a 3x5 card
scanner). I've found one that is $700, which is about four times the price
I'm willing to pay, but that's aimed at Patriot Act compliance and does fancy
anti-counterfeting things. Most of the the "executive business card
scanners" are pretty cheap.

Some of them appear to feed on the long side, which is 3.5", so I'm
curious if you can feed a 3x5 card in there and it will just keep scanning
past the 2" mark. I have a flatbed scanner, but it's a bit cumbersome for
3x5 cards.

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Evan "JabberWokky" Edwards
http://www.cheshirehall.org/
615.517.6900

[Lvood]

Hi Evan,

the Fujitsu ScanSnap scanners a really awfully good things, but they
are firstly designed for A4 sized paper. They scan with automatic
feeder both sides in one run and are quite fast and reliable - very
good for digitizing documents.
(The only little drawback is the driver software, which does not
really allow to choose contrast setting, so pencil writing on a
printed high contrast document sometimes gets nearly unreadable in the
scan).
Drawback n° 2 is the price of about 350 EUR, but if you use it often,
it is a really useful device.

Concerning business card scanners, I don't know if they can "swallow"
bigger cards - we have a CardScan scanner at work, but I never tried
to feed it bigger cards.

Kind regards

Martin

[Phil Wolff]

I use the CardScan Executive scanner.[1] The software lets me convert
the scans to jpgs, saves everything in a database, and backs
everything up to a server so I can access my 3x5s from anywhere.

Oh, and it's great for business cards.

[1] http://www.cardscan.com/