HT2486 Business card info into Address Book?

is there a program that allows you to scan business card info into the Mac Address Book using a macbook pro or iMac built-in camera? I know there are programs for the iphone and ipad, but what about norma computer users? It seems like the Address Book should have this capability since all macs have a built in camera.

Address Book can import files in several formats, including CSV, in which format Numbers can Export a file.
If the columns in your numbers file are not labeled in row 1, start by adding a row to the top of the table and entering an identifying label into each column.
Go: File > Export > CSV > UTF-8 > Name the file and select a location. Click Export (or Save)
For instructions on Importing the file into Address Book,
Launch Address Book.
Click the Help menu; then enter 'importing contacts' into the search box. Click on "importing contacts" in the list that opens.
Regards,
Barry

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Importing into Address Book with Custom Fields from a Text File.

Hello
I'm a teacher and like to create contacts for my students. The information that I want in each contact besides their name, email address and phone number are their
student id's, semester enrolled, class number and class title. For these four fields I create a "Custom" field with the appropriate names: "ID", "Term", "Course" and "Class" respectively.
All this information I can download from the school's server in a CSV file.
To import the information into Address Book, I choose "File -> Import -> Text File" and then select the CSV file that I downloaded. The import utility opens up correctly showing all the fields I would like to import, however, many of the fields are marked as "Do not import." When I click on that term to select my Custom fields, they do not show up. Is this a bug or "feature" of the Address Book? It seems to me that if you are allowed to create useful custom fields, you should be able to import data into them as well.
If I'm just ignorant of how to do this, I would appreciate some help. If there is no way to currently do this efficiently, it would be nice to have this feature added to the Address book in the near future.
Thanks for your consideration,
Gary

Thanks for posting your question and the reply from rojok...
I'm a teacher as well - in Entourage I was able to just copy a column of email addresses (say from an Excel spreadsheet, downloaded from the school's server here at U MD) and then create a group and simply paste that list into the group. Address Book makes you do the extra step of importing all the addresses first. (Note: Your last imported list of contacts in this manner shows up as "Last Import" in the groups lists column to the left in Address Book - so to add contacts to a Group there, you select that Last Import group, click once in that list column one contact, say, then select all of the list - then Command + A, for select all - then drag them all to your group you've made - i.e. "MySpringClassList"). This is NOT very intuitive I might add and incredibly cumbersome of a process.
To get around the customizable info I needed to import... I just chose options that I don't regularly use for those things I needed to import - i.e. student I.D., these I placed under "ICQ Other" - that way they're imported at least.
Good luck,
Andrew

Problem importing CSV or tab-delimited file into Address Book

I am trying to import a text file (tab delimited) or csv file into address book. The files are created in Excel and consist 8 columns with address info (first name, last name, street, city etc). For the sake of simplicity, the file only contains 2 records - so all in all 3 rows with data where the first row contains the headers as described above.
I am perfectly able to import the fields first name, last name using Address Book's text import feature. However, as soon as I try to map Address Book's address field (Home, work or other) to my text file's headers, the import wizard stops responding. I can still scroll through the records with the left and right error, but the record count is screwed up ("-3 of 2") and clicking the OK button doesn't result in anything.
So I am able to import the names but not the addresses - so I better rename the Address Book to Name Book
Any clue of what's going wrong?

I've been wrestling with the exact same problem. I have come to a solution, though serendipitously. The address variables belong to a group say address Office.
1 - I creted a column with address Office which clued in AddressBook the the existence of the data for +address Other+ (and it assigned the columns ot the proper data)
2 - address book does have an entry of address with all group elements of same colour, normally. I reassign address other to address office
3 - I also assign address office (in right-hand column) to address office.
At this point I have two groups of address office
4 - I indicate to the second group 'do not import'
5 - Then hit OK
It seems that this loop is necessary to instantiate the proper group name to the group of variables. Why? who knows. Bad UI? Clearly. Apple engineers should've thought about it before? no kidding...

Problems Importing into Address Book

Trying to import my address book from a vcf file. I get the following error:
Are you sure you want to add 1511 cards to your address book? There were problems importing.
My address book file has 2308 cards, not 1511.
Any suggestion

If you open Address Book, click on Card menuitem and select Edit Template. This will show you what the current template is and what fields may be added to the template.
You can then edit the LDIF file when it's created to select only the desired export fields that will match the template.
I believe when you then import into Address Book you will have an opportunity to match up the corresponding fields. Been so long since I did this I don't remember.

Importing records into Address Book

I note the difficulties some have had importing records. I too am having problems. I'm trying to get my Filemaker databases into Address Book so that I can then move them to my iPod. Exporting from Filemaker is fine, and importing into Address Book appears to be. However on closer examination it isn't, as all the records have been imported but not all the fields in all the records. As the import isn't perfect, it's arguably useless.
Anyone else had this experience? Any suggestions as to where the problem lies? And has anyone found the best way to get Filemaker databases onto iPods?
Thanks.

If you open Address Book, click on Card menuitem and select Edit Template. This will show you what the current template is and what fields may be added to the template.
You can then edit the LDIF file when it's created to select only the desired export fields that will match the template.
I believe when you then import into Address Book you will have an opportunity to match up the corresponding fields. Been so long since I did this I don't remember.

Importing addresses in Word document into Address Book

I have a Word document that has all of my addresses in a label-like format.
How do I import this into Address Book? can I make some easy modifications so I do not have to retype the whole thing into Address Book.

Mail can import a tab delimited text file. Do a find and replace to change the spaces to Tabs. If you have a double-return between records, then you can search for that and replace it with a manual line break. Then, change the rest of the paragraphs to tabs so that each record is one line.
You can then change the manual line breaks back to paragraph marks.
You may have to ensure you have the same number of fields for each record by adding tabs to ones that don't have all the info of the rest.

Doesn't iPhone transfer any changes made to contacts back into Address Book

I was under the impression that I could make changes to my contacts on my iPhone and then when I sync'd, those changes would be applied to my Address Book on my computer.
Example - I sync'd all of my contacts from my computer onto my iPhone. Today one of my coworkers gave me her cell phone number. I added this right into my phone, thinking that when I sync'd tonight, that number would be put into Address Book. It did not happen. The number did not go into Address Book, and her original contact info (with no cell phone number) was transferred back onto the iPhone. What would cause this, I can't find any settings that I have wrong.....

David -
iPhone does indeed transfer any calendar event or address book addition that you added to your iPhone back to your computer. It works seemlessly on mine. When I add something to my iPhone for example and it starts to sync, when it sees a change a message box pops up on my Macbook and asks me if I want certain changes to take place (it will give you the number of items that are either being added straight out or simply modified).
I'm not sure if you are working on a Mac or PC, but my guess is you should be seeing this box and having the option to add or modify. If you are not than that probably is the problem.
Try holding down the sleep button on the iPhone for a few seconds until you see the APPLE logo. This will reset the phone. It could be a glitch between your phone an dthe system. If that doesn't work try hard resetting then adding all your info in. Also in iTunes there is an option tab for Calendar and Address Book. While I'm not sure this would work, you can give it a shot - try unchecking which ever one (or both) you are finding won't sync, then syncing iPhone, then re-chceking them, and syncing again.
I guess try everything you can yourself before calling Apple tech.
Hope any of these help!
J

Can someone help me import perfect csv spreadsheet into address book?

I have spent almost two years perfecting my excel spreadsheet with columns exactly matching the fields in address book, and saved as a CSV. When I try to import up comes a two-column list, fine up until column 8, where it suddenly starts saying "do not import" and "ignore" and "in use". I fiddle for hours but don't know what it means. Experiments lead to fields in the wrong places. I have read a whole correspondence about this, but solutions too complex for me.

Anything here help?
Importing contacts into Address Book
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=AddressBook/4.0/en/ad808.html

Import .txt (from Excel) into Address book not happening

I am attempting to import a .txt file (exported from an Excel file) containing 5000 contacts with email and phone details. In the Import dialogue I can map the columns to the Address Book properties. When I press OK the button stays blue (highlighted) for a few seconds but no import occurs. Not even the card being previewed.
What am I missing here? (Bit urgent too)

I had the same problem. I saved as tab-delimited in excel, closed it but upon import, address book would hang (spinning wheel or no response). So, I reopened the .txt file in Numbers instead, got rid of any strange lines, saved again as .txt. Then, I imported it into Address book and it was fine.
To see whether it had to do with Numbers or Excel, I reopened the .txt file in Excel also, did the editing out of strange lines/cells again, and imported into address book again without problems.
Seems like a really dumb hack, but it worked for me. I had 62 entries (address book always stalled at 5).

Can't complete .dsv file import into Address Book

Hi folks, this is driving me insane (and has been for months off and on!)
I exported all my contacts from Entourage and want to import them into Address Book.
The file is a .dsv file. I select File>import>text file and locate the file.
I then check each field to make sure the information on the right corresponds to the field title on the left.
I can click the forward arrow at the bottom and I can click the OK button - but it doesn't seem to do ANYTHING!
I can see the cards individually as I click the right arrow button. I've even tried clicking through and hitting OK on each one individually but when I get to my final contact, nothing happens.
I have wasted so many hours on this. Can someone please help me complete the import of this CSV file (Help is worse than useless on this subject!)
Many many thanks!
David.

Thanks for the quick reply Mort but unfortunately I no longer have the Entourage data (just the exported DSV file) and I had already read and tried the other thread.
It all seems to work fine but when I've finished there's no option to complete or get rid of the box with the field information in it.
The OK button is clickable (ie not greyed out) but doesn't seem to do anything.
I really don't want to have to manually enter this data but with the time it's taking me to resolve the import problem I'd be quicker re-typing everything!
Any other suggestions/fixes anyone?
Thanks
David.

I have the answer to Importing VCards into Address book

Ok after reading all the forums etc and banging my head against the wall for a couple of hour I have found a two stage solution to Importing VCards from Outlook into Address book.
As I have 978 contacts in about 14 categories I had to find an efficient solution, firstly I downloaded a small program called "Outpod": Backup iPod to PC,copy songs from iPod to computer,iPod to iTunes whilst it is old and talks about iPod it works perfectly on my Outlook 2010 version.
It doesn't actually "install", just run the .exe file from anywhere after you extract it. In Outpod select "Contacts" if you have multiple profiles it will then prompt for which profile to use, expand your Contacts list, and then select "categories" on the top bar.
All contacts are now displayed in their correct category, select all of the contacts in the first category, right click, and select you want to export from a Category using Outpod, insert a thumbdrive on the PC, right click and select "Save selected items in one file", Outpod will ask you where you wish to save the file and gives you the opportunity to name the file. Just name the file the same name as the category you are exporting to, and repeat for all categories until you have them all on the USB stick.
Now to the Mac. Open Address Book on the Mac, create Groups (not "Smart Groups") to match all your categories. Now insert the thumb drive into the Mac, open it in the Finder until you can see all your files. with both windows open, highlight the Group in Address Book and then double click the corresponding file in the finder window. Shazam! all those contacts will appear in the correct group. repeat for all other Groups.
I find it astonishing that Apple just ignore issues like this, and "Last Import" not clearing it's cache for instance. So now I just have to figure out how to get a movie to auto play on a Keynote slide, another great product dissapointment, anyone?
Cheers
Tex260Z

Thank you thank you. UTF 16 did the trick. What I was trying to do was import/save addresses i found on whitepages.com directly to my address book. I can't seem to find an ideal way tht doesn't involve a few steps of cutting and pasting. anyone?

How can I import multiple email addresses in cc field of MAIL email into Address Book or Contacts?

Hello...Mail and Address Book used to have a great feature where when you received an email (in Mac MAIL program), if there were multiple emails I'm the "to" or "cc" fields, you could select them all as a batch and drag them into Address Book and it would add them all to Address Book. Now it doesn't seem to let you do it as a batch...you have to click each email address and select "add to address book".
Does anyone know of a workaround, or an AppleScript, or third party app that would allow users to add email addresses to AB in a batch from a MAIL email?
Thanks!

Try this.. Click the first in the CC field hold Shift, Click the Second Third, Fouth, Fifth and so on... click right Mouse select add to Contacts.

HT2513 Had to import Birthdays from yahoo calendar. Is there any way to move them to the iCal Birthdays calendar without manually inputing them each into Address Book?

I used to use Yahoo Calendar to manage my birthdays and notifications of them. Yahoo screwed with something, so now I no longer get birthday notification texts to my cell. Now, I've imported my Yahoo Calendar dates in to iCal. iCal has a Birthdays "subscription" calendar which only shows birthdays entered into the Address Book. I do not have any birthdays entered into Address Book. Is there any way to select birthday entries from my other calendars and move them to the birthdays tab, or must I manually enter over 200 birthdays into Address Book?
While I'm here, is there any way to highlight specific calendar entries and move them to a "new calendar"?
THanks in advance for any and all help.
-BKTru

looks like this is not yet an option via yahoo/sbc

How do i import and sync my icloud / iphone contacts into address book on my macbook pro, how do i import and sync my icloud / iphone contacts into address book on my macbook pro

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how do i import and sync my icloud / iphone contacts into address book on my macbook pro, how do i import and sync my icloud / iphone contacts into address book on my macbook pro
Runnig 10.6.8 on a MacBook PRO.....

The easiest fix if you're running Snow Leopard is to export all your contacts, then import them into something like google (I already had a gmail account), and then just use google to sync your contacts instead of icloud (via the sync with Google button in the address book settings).
Its a bit sluggish to update, but it works well. You can then point your iphone, and other iOS devices to use google for contacts too.
If Apple don't want to look after their customers, other companies will gladly do so....

How do I import addresses from Word into Address Book?

I have all my addresses formatted as a label document in Word (so I can print on Avery labels). How can I import this information into Address Book?

You will need to convert the file so it appears something like this:
LastName<tab>FirstName<tab>Address<tab>City<tab>State<tab>Zip
Aalberg<tab>The<tab>3451 Avon Way<tab>Burbank<tab>CA<tab>91564
Jones<tab>Sam<tab>11112 First Ave. NW<tab>Atlanta<tab>GA<tab>30022
The above is the general format required. The typical way of doing address labels in Word is to create a mailmerge database that would be formatted like the above. Then you create a mailmerge document in which the fieldnames on the top line of the database are inserted in the desired format. You then create the output file by doing a mailmerge. Apparently you are doing it the brute-force way.
I hope this makes it clearer for you.

HT2486 Business card info into Address Book?

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