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Business card scanner, Scanning cards, Processing batches of captured cards, Scanning, cards

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Business card scanner With Business card scanner you can scan a business card that is handed to you, and add the contact details to your contacts. A. Select Card Scanner menu to set the Card scanner ENG/CHI card A language to be used. B. The currently selected B language(-s). C. Start the Camera. D. Browse for business cards that you have already captured. C Scanning Capture Browse D cards 1. Select Office > Business card scanner. 2. Select Capture or tap the large central Business card scanner icon to start the camera. 3. Hold the business card in front of the camera and take a picture of the card, see Camera on page 51. A few camera settings are available. The picture is displayed in the Business card scanner application. 4. If the picture is good enough you can choose either to process it as a contact entry or to leave it and process it later. When you process the picture of a business card, most of the text will be displayed in appropriate fields in the contact entries. If there is information that the business card scanner cannot place into a field, you can find it in the tab of the contact's entry. From there you can copy text to the appropriate fields in the contact entry. See more in Creating and editing contacts on page 58. Processing batches of captured cards You can process batches of pictures of business cards as contact entries. 1. Select Browse to view the list of captured business cards. (Already processed cards have contact names.) 2. Mark the cards you want to process and select Done. The contacts names from the processed batch are displayed in Contacts. They are categorized in a folder named Business cards n, where n is the serial number of the batch. Tip To delete pictures of business cards, see Picture gallery on page 78 or File manager on page 93. 82 Business card scanner P990i This is the Internet version of the user guide. © Print only for private use.

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Business card scanner
P990i
This is the Internet version of the user guide. © Print only for private use.
Business card scanner
With Business card scanner you can scan a business card
that is handed to you, and add the contact details to your
contacts.
A.
Select
Card Scanner
menu to set the
language to be used.
B.
The currently selected
language(-s).
C.
Start the Camera.
D.
Browse for business
cards that you have
already captured.
Scanning
cards
1.
Select
Office > Business card scanner
.
2.
Select
Capture
or tap the large central Business card
scanner icon to start the camera.
3.
Hold the business card in front of the camera and
take a picture of the card, see
Camera
on page 51. A
few camera settings are available. The picture is
displayed in the Business card scanner application.
4.
If the picture is good enough you can choose either
to process it as a contact entry or to leave it and
process it later.
When you process the picture of a business card, most of
the text will be displayed in appropriate fields in the
contact entries. If there is information that the business
card scanner cannot place into a field, you can find it in
the
tab of the contact’s entry. From there you can
copy text to the appropriate fields in the contact entry.
See more in
Creating and editing contacts
on page 58.
Processing batches of captured cards
You can process batches of pictures of business cards as
contact entries.
1.
Select
Browse
to view the list of captured business
cards. (Already processed cards have contact
names.)
2.
Mark the cards you want to process and select
Done
.
The contacts names from the processed batch are
displayed in Contacts. They are categorized in a
folder named
Business cards n
, where n is the
serial number of the batch.
Tip
To delete pictures of business cards, see Picture
gallery on page 78 or File manager on page 93.
A
B
C
D
Card scanner
Capture
Browse
ENG/CHI card