Good point when capturing cards from different region of the world, you just have to go once to language option and select all the languages.įunctions: Card holder (with call, SMS, email, visit website, map), Anti-shake, auto crop image, beautifying image.
Speed: correct recognition speed as if the auto-cropping and “beautifying” takes some time. Performance (OCR): Good but sometime cut some important part of the card when auto-cropping image before “beautifying” it (For example a part of the card with a dark blue bottom cut when taking picture on a dark background).Ī card with telephone numbers displayed like “+46 46 19 xx xx, 19 yy yy” recognized as “+464619xxxx19yyyy”. With a few clicks and downloads, you’re set with the languages you require. But from the option panel you access the other languages modules available (free). The basic app comes with only English recognition. The access to the option panel is a bit strange (only accessible from the card view).įunctions: Reminders, connect on LinkedIN, export to Evernote or to Excel file, send intro email after scan, Web sync of contacts ($.99/month or $9.99/year), complete address book (Creation of folders, contact display with call, SMS, email, visit website), 2 sides scan of business card, import email signature. The fact that there are so many functions, make the interface not always simple. Look & feel: nice interface, but not necessary consistent, the main page has a green background but the “My cards” part has black background. You have to select the language of the card every time it changes (do not forgot to select the language before recognition Speed: slower than the other solution but still acceptable. Lots of error between “1”, “t” and “l”, or “o” and “0”. Performance (OCR): correct but performing not as good as the other solutions. You just have to go to language option once and select “European”.įunctions: Save the contact in the iPhone’s address book in a “bizcard” folder, separated from the All Contact (it’s an option to set you can choose between the default “All contact” and the “bizcard” one). Good with funky business card (orange background and white text).Īn address with “25S” recognized as “255”. Seems to accommodate with picture taken with less light. Performance (OCR): Pretty good recognition of characters and correct placement in the address book fields. Functions: other functions or features, contacts’ organization (card holder or separated folder in the address book) Look & Feel of the application: easy learning, intuitive interface I’ve got French, Swedish, English, Spanish and other European cards, the time switching between languages can affect a lot the real time of capturing info. Speed: I’ve got around 200 cards I don’t want to spend 2 weeks entering the info. Recognition performance: OCR performance, placement of information in the correct fields The result is it probably took me more time to test all the apps than entering the contacts by hand, so I think I should share the information just in case some other folks out there are in the same need of business card reader. I decided to try myself different lite/free version of these “business card readers” out there and make my own opinion about them, before buying any app. I’ve got a lot of business cards lying in my desk, it’s always a pain to find the contacts info at the moment I need to contact a client or business partner. The business card reader function: snap a business card, the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) engine reads the info and fills the address book. Looking around about app’s reviews on blogs and websites, I find some articles about business card readers (Apps148 - April 2010, NY Times - September 2010, …. Hi all, I recently acquired an iPhone 3GS (I know there is the iPhone 4, and the next one is probably already on the way!) but it was “given” from my company.
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