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User User’ ’s s Guide Guide
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Introduction CardMinder is a business card management application for Color Image Scanner ScanSnap (except for ScanSnap Network Scanner). This manual provides an overview and the basic operations of CardMinder. Trademarks Apple, the Apple logo, Mac, Mac OS, OS X, and iPhoto are trademarks of Apple Inc. Microsoft and Windows are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. Intel and Intel Core are registered trademarks or trade
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Introduction Use in High-Safety Applications This product has been designed and manufactured on the assumption that it will be used in office, personal, domestic, regular industrial, and general-purpose applications. It has not been designed and manufactured for use in applications (simply called "high-safety applications" from here on) that directly involve danger to life and health when a high degree of safety is required, for example, in the control of nuclear reactions at nuclear power
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Introduction Structure of This Manual This manual consists of the following: Chapter 1 CardMinder Overview This chapter provides an overview of CardMinder's features and describes how to start up and exit CardMinder. Chapter 2 How to Use CardMinder This chapter describes the basic operations of CardMinder. Appendix A Installing and Uninstalling This appendix describes system requirements and how to install and uninstall CardMinder. To learn the basic functions of CardMinder, reading from C
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Introduction Abbreviations Used in This Manual The following abbreviations are used in this manual. Abbreviation Used Name Mac OS OS X v10.8, Mac OS X v10.7 and Mac OS X v10.6 ScanSnap Color Image Scanner ScanSnap (*) *: ScanSnap Network Scanner is not included. 5
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Table of Contents Introduction ....................................................................................2 Trademarks..................................................................................... 2 Manufacturer................................................................................... 2 Use in High-Safety Applications................................................... 3 Manuals........................................................................................... 3 S
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Table of Contents Appendix A Installing and Uninstalling ..................................... 22 A.1 System Requirements .........................................................23 A.2 Installing ...............................................................................24 A.3 Uninstalling ..........................................................................24 Index ............................................................................................. 25 7
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Chapter 1 CardMinder Overview This chapter provides an overview of CardMinder's features, and describes how to start up and exit CardMinder. 1.1 Outline .....................................................................................9 1.2 Features.................................................................................10 1.3 Starting Up and Exiting........................................................11 8
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1.1 Outline 1.1 Outline CardMinder is a business card management application for ScanSnap. This application digitalizes large amounts of business cards into images at a high speed and recognizes text on those cards, thus allowing you to search for your clients' business cards from those data quickly, and conveniently create databases of client information from cards such as name, company name and e-mail address. CardMinder uses an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) engine to recognize text
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1.2 Features 1.2 Features CardMinder provides the following features: Recognizing the character strings on business cards to create character data and keywords Combining data of two single-sided card images to create data for one double-sided card Management of card images and databases as well as their supplementary information added manually to the [Memo] field Exporting of card data to other applications through linkage with Personal Information Manager (PIM) and exporting of card ima
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1.3 Starting Up and Exiting 1.3 Starting Up and Exiting CardMinder This section describes how to start up and exit CardMinder. Starting up directly Follow the procedure below: 1. From Dock, click the Finder icon ( ). 2. Double-click [Applications] → [CardMinder] → [CardMinder]. CardMinder is started. HINT You can also start CardMinder immediately after scanning a card using ScanSnap. For details, refer to the Operator's Guide of your ScanSnap. You can also click the registered icon ( ) to s
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1.3 Starting Up and Exiting Using the search function to start Follow the procedure below: 1. Select the character string for searching card data on other applications. 2. Press the keyboard [Command] key + [Shift] key + [&] key. CardMinder is started with the card data containing the search data string being displayed. HINT CardMinder searches the card data in the database most recently opened. The character string selected in another application is shown in Basic Search Toolbar. Pressing
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1.3 Starting Up and Exiting CardMinder Help This section describes how to open the Help while using CardMinder. Click [Help] menu → [CardMinder Help]. HINT You can also display the [Help] menu by pressing the keyboard [Command] key + [Shift] key + [?] key. 13
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Chapter 2 How to Use CardMinder This chapter describes the basic flow of operations from CardMinder startup to reading and saving, as well as how to use the card data. Follow the procedures described in this chapter to learn the basic functions of CardMinder. For details about operations, windows, functions, and error messages and their solutions, refer to CardMinder Help. 2.1 Flow of Operations ...............................................................15 2.2 Using Card Data............
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2.1 Flow of Operations 2.1 Flow of Operations Basic Procedures This section describes the procedures for using CardMinder, which is already registered in Dock. 1. Start CardMinder. On Dock, click [CardMinder] to start CardMinder. 2. Scan a card using ScanSnap. Set a card in ScanSnap and press the [Scan] button to start card scanning. [Scan] button After scanning is completed, text information on the card such as name and address is automatically recognized as text and displayed in the Card Dat
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2.1 Flow of Operations 3. Check the card data. Check that the front/backside card images are correct (not reversed), and that text on the card image is displayed correctly on the Card Data Edit view. Card Data Edit view 4. If the recognized language is incorrect, retry text recognition according to the following procedures. 1. Select [CardMinder] menu → [Preferences]. The [General] window is displayed. 2. Select the language of the recognized character string under [Recognition Language]. T
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2.1 Flow of Operations 4. From the toolbar, click the [Recognition] button again. The character string of the card data is recognized as the specified language. ATTENTION ScanSnap Manager must be installed on your computer when you want to recognize the following languages. Chinese (simplified) Chinese (traditional) Korean 5. Correct the card data if necessary. Correct the recognition results of the Card Data Edit view and scanned card images. If incorrect text is recognized, retry recognit
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2.1 Flow of Operations 6. Exit CardMinder. Click [CardMinder] menu → [Quit CardMinder] to exit CardMinder. When started the next time, the database that was being used before CardMinder was exited will be started up. 18
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2.1 Flow of Operations Searching Card Data Card data can be searched using items such as names and company names. Searching using the CardMinder Basic Search Toolbar To search card data using items such as "Full Name" and "Company", enter the the search data string for those items in Basic Search Toolbar. Search (Basic Search Toolbar) Searching using keyboard shortcut You can search for card data by selecting the character string used in another application (e.g., TextEdit) even when CardMinde
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2.2 Using Card Data 2.2 Using Card Data The card data can be used as follows. For operation details, refer to CardMinder Help. Using Card Data Click the following toolbar buttons to use the card data with various applications. This section describes the toolbar with the [Application] button displayed by customizing toolbar as an example. Output card data in another format. Card data can be output in other formats such as vCard, CSV, Text and ContactXML formats. Search using the Internet. Use t
