Business Card Scanner; Scanning Cards - Sony Ericsson P990i User Manual

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 or tap the large central Business card
Capture
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.
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Card scanner
A
ENG/CHI card
B
C
Capture Browse
D
.
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 to view the list of captured business
Browse
cards. (Already processed cards have contact
names.)
2. Mark the cards you want to process and select
The contacts names from the processed batch are
displayed in Contacts. They are categorized in a
folder named
Business cards n
serial number of the batch.
Tip To delete pictures of business cards, see Picture
gallery on page 78 or File manager on page 93.
.
Done
, where n is the
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