ABBYY Business Card Scanner

ABBYY USA Software House Inc

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About this app

ABBYY Business Card Scanner is a scanner app that can manage all your contacts in a digital library.📱

Our Business Card Reader (BCR) allows you to:
- Instantly transfer data in 25 languages right onto your smartphone
- Sync data across smartphones, tablets, and computers via ABBYY’s cloud and access your contacts from anywhere on ABBYYBCR.COM
- Save contacts in your own electronic storage – CardHolder – with a simple search, sorting, and grouping capabilities
- Share biz contacts data by e-mail or SMS and export to Excel

🏆 Recommended by The New York Times, CNN, The Telegraph, Computer Business Review, Macworld.
🏆 ‘If your desk is strewn with printed business cards this could be the app for you. Throw away your 1980s-style Rolodex and download the ABBYY Business Card Reader (BCR)’ - The Telegraph (UK).
🏆 Mobile Star Award Winner of SHINING STAR in the "Contact Manager App" category.
🏆 ABBYY BCR is a Featured App in the Intel® Business App Portfolio.

FEATURES
✔️ No need to enter contact details into your mobile phone manually. Instead, scan them with your phone. Our app uses smart OCR technology. Forget having to correct the details. Use our digital business card reader for quick and easy name-keeping.
✔️ Create a virtual database. Access it from your computer, smartphone, or tablet.
✔️ Are you using a Salesforce CRM? Export your contacts after scanning them and share them with people.
✔️ Want to say hello to an old friend but can’t find the contact? It’s easy to search through our business card organizer and find the phone number or email you’re looking for.
✔️ Keep notes about contacts in your smart card keeper. Notes are easy to make, edit, and look through.
✔️ Make sure the card reader app made no mistake instantly. The BCS will highlight uncertain characters and show the original image so that you can compare the two.
✔️ Share contact via SMS as plain text or email as a JPEG file.
✔️Export the whole database to MS Excel.
✔️ Is someone from your contact list visiting you soon? Scroll through popular social networks to find out more about them.

b>S25 languages available. You can perform a card scan on a multilingual one too!
• Czech
• Chinese (Simplified)
• Chinese (Traditional)
• Danish
• Dutch
• English
• Estonian
• Finnish
• French
• German
• Greek
• Japanese
• Indonesian
• Italian
• Korean
• Norwegian (Bokmal)
• Norwegian (Nynorsk)
• Polish
• Portuguese (Portugal)
• Portuguese (Brazil)
• Russian
• Spanish
• Swedish
• Turkish
• Ukrainian

Create a business card holder in your phone using just your camera and ABBYY Business Card Scanner.
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CORPORATE VOLUME LICENSING
If you are interested in volume licensing (more than 100) for your company or any customization of the app, please contact us at [e-mail].
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Upgrade to the premium version of our scanner app to process an unlimited amount of business cards. Our app uses OCR scanning technology.

Ratings and reviews

This app performed more accurately than Wantedly, but still needed quite a bit of editing. It works better when you take the picture closer to the card. I wouldn't have downloaded if the app had been titled Trial. I wanted a free app that was really free, not just free for 10 cards. People who seek the app need more than 10 cards, so might as well be upfront about the costs and call it a trial.

It does a decent job of recognizing text, provided the card is in a fairly standard layout. You really need to go in and proofread / edit each card though. But the thing that drives me CRAZY and has me still looking for a different app is that there's no way to edit cards to manually crop them after you've scanned them in. To manually take a picture via the standard camera mode would take forever. But if you don't do that, your biz cards don't look all nice and pretty, just a jumbled mess. I'd have thought you could maybe edit the card images in the computer / web app, but no. Also, there's a serious lack of support so far as a how-to manual / instructions goes.

I've been buying Finereader for Windows for years and am largely happy with it. Thankfully, it's not subscription based like many other programs. This card reader app, though, is subscription based and very expensive compared with other card readers at that. They do have a lifetime price, but I've learned the hard way with many apps on the play store... Most are not lifetime. All they have to do is change the name of the program and put a new one out there, and you have to pay for it again.

What's new

+ Improved stability and bugfix
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