Ingenious Invention

I work as an Administrative Assistant. Keeping the office organized is one of my top priorities and I am always looking for ways to improve productivity. One day my boss gave me a stack of about 200 business cards and asked me to find a way to organize them in a binder. So, I went to the supply catalog and ordered business card sheets that hold about 8 cards per side and can be inserted into a 3-hole binder. Because he travels all over the world, I sectioned the business cards by country. This system was working out good until he kept giving me more and more and more.... and more business cards to file. I have learned that my boss is amazing at networking. He asks for everyone's business card... even a manager at a tiny coffee shop he visited in Dubai. Because we had hundreds of cards, I ran into the challenge of making them easy to find... you can't keep re-alphabetizing them as you add more and more. I thought surely with the amazing technology out there, there has to be a better solution. I went online and searched and found the BEST invention ever - the business card scanner.

This cute little scanner sits on my desk and gets used frequently. You can scan business cards that are front and back, in foreign languages, and the software not only stores a photo image of the card, but it also converts the text into English and pulls the various fields (name, phone, email) into a contact directory. This directory information can be merged into my bosses' Microsoft Outlook address book for easy accessibility.... even from his I Phone. He no longer has to flip through pages and pages of business cards to find what he's looking for. We recycle the business cards which allows us to save office space and help the environment. Its ingenious! I totally recommend that you get one of these some day!