Integrating business card scanner into 4D

Hi,
      I'm wondering if anyone's had any recent experience trying to  
integrate a business card scanner into a 4D-based CRM (with OSX  
clients & server)?  We periodically get requests from our users for  
this functionality and it's been a few years since I took a serious  
look into it (without much success), so I'm hoping there's more  
options now.  Unfortunately, just from doing a bit of Googling around,  
the prospects for a Mac environment solution don't look too rosy even  
now.

      I see basically three options on the software side: CardScan,  
ReadIris, and Neat.  None of these seem to have any API functionality,  
so we're most likely looking at a system that would scan a card into  
their own internal DB, then allow for exporting the contact info into  
a form that could be pulled into our CRM.  We'd have to concentrate on  
automating as much of that process as possible, but I seriously doubt  
that it'll be as transparent and trouble-free for the user as I'm  
hoping.  In the end, I'm suspecting this is the approach we'll have to  
take if we want to pursue this.

      The only other option we can think of is that there are now  
several options for taking a picture of a card with an IOS device that  
will then process the card data and put it into the device's address  
book, from where it can be synced/exported to the Mac, and then  
brought into 4D.  Ugly, and it would require each staff member have an  
IOS device, but a possibility.

      Are there any other options available?  4D plugins that might do  
this?  Thanks for any and all ideas...

---SCJ

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