Readdle Releases Card Scanner Pro For Quick And Easy Business Card To Address Book Processing
August 9, 2011
Beyond games and social-networking apps are tons of software titles to help make the business portion of your life more efficient. One of the top creators of productivity and business apps for iOS are our friends at Readdle. In fact, they have a new app out, Card Scanner Pro, and we'd like to highlight it for you now.
Those who are familiar with Readdle's Scanner Pro, the company's acclaimed general document optical character recognition app, will feel confident and comfortable with Card Scanner Pro due to a number of similarities, including the same power and ease of use.
The heart of this new app is an ABBYY OCR engine, offering the most accurate recognition possible. To utilize this top-notch processor to convert physical business cards into a digital address book entry, all it takes is three simple steps. Snap a fresh photo or use a previous capture, allow Card Scanner Pro to extract the details, such as the phone number and address, and then a final verification.
Unlike standard documents, for instance reports and letters, business cards have plenty of imagery, snazzy fonts, and any format imaginable. Therefore, you may need to do some light editing of the results before saving it to your address book. However, any cards that had at least somewhat standard layouts and detail labels worked quite painlessly.
In addition to saving the entry to the built-in iOS Contacts app, Card Scanner Pro contains a duplicate database of contacts you've created using the app, complete with search and support for viewing links in Safari, creating a new email message, and dialing a phone number.
Card Scanner Pro is compatible with iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4 running iOS 4.0 or later, and available in the App Store for $6.99. Card Scanner Pro supports English, German, French, Italian, and Spanish.
