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ContactGrabber

With ContactGrabber ibs-quadrat GmbH offers a solution to extract adresses from emails, websites or other texts und to export these adresses in structured form to CRM-Systems or Outlook.

How it works:

  1. The user marks a text with mouse or cursor and copies this text with CTRL-C to the clipboard. Alternatively one can use a Hotkey-Shortcut or the Capture-Mode.
  2. ContactGrabber comes up and analyses the content of the clipboard. ContactGrabber extracts automatically information about name, street, city, town, website, communication data and other.
  3. Now the user chooses a target system from the list, e.g. Outlook, and ContactGrabber exports the address to the selected system.

Which target system you would like to have you can setup in preferences

 

  1. Under preferences you activate your target system and setup some data in case you are using a proxy for server connection.
  2. You can choose your target system within the list. On first start there are no destinations activated, you can activate them under preferences.
  3. By clicking the export button ContactGrabber connects to target system and exports the contact.
  4. In this field are the raw data. If you want to you can edit and modify this data
  5. ContactGrabber analyses the raw data and identifies general data, address and communication data.
  6. Sometimes there are several information in one row of raw data, e.g. phon and fax data in one line. Often there is a "separator" between these data. You can choose such a "separator" from the selectbox or you can enter a "separator" into the selectbox. After selecting or editing a separator ContactGrabber resorts and reanalyses the raw data.
  7. The option "flat table" reorder table data

    Example:

    Peter Mustermann
    Theaterstr. 47    Tel: 0241 4099773
    52062 Aachen    Fax: 0241 4099775
    www.ibs-quadrat.de
     
    →
     
    Peter Mustermann
    Theaterstr. 47
    52062 Aachen
    www.ibs-quadrat.de
    Tel: 0241 4099773
    Fax: 0241 4099775
  8. You can also edit the raw data directly. Then click "Parse Again" and ContactGrabber reanalyses the raw data.
    ContactGrabber uses two different parser for analyses the adresses. The international parser is capable of analysing a variety of addresses from different countries. The german parser can only recognize german, swiss and austrian addresses but the recognition rate is optimized towards this area. You can change the parser using the drop-down box or the preference dialog parser settings. In the preference dialog you can setup further parser parameter.
  9. By pressing the button "Clipboard" ContactGrabber copies the content of the clipboard to the parse field and starts analysing.
  10. You can clean the content of parse field by clicking the button "Clear"
  11. The statusbar shows the choosen parser on the left side. "GER" means "German Parser" and "INT" means "International Parser". The middle part of the statusbar holds the progressbar where you can see the export progress. In case an export is currently underway you can use the right button to popup the export dialog where you can see the different exports that are currently working. If an error occurs during the export the icon of the right button changes .

Traybar

After start ContactGrabber opens the main dialog and inserts an icon in the traybar.

If you double click the icon the main dialog of ContactGrabber comes up. If you use the right mouse button a popup dialog comes up and you can setup capture mode, show, hide or quit the application.