iPhone Business Card Scanner App

I am continuously surprised by the weird and useful apps that are released for the iPhone. Here’s one that’s useful – Business Card Scanner by SHAPE Services. That’s right, it does what you think it does; provides instant business card recognition on your iPhone. Unfortunately it only works on the iPhone 3GS (possible on older models with macro lens attachment).

Particularly impressed by the way it pulls in all the business card information and creates a new contact for you in your address book. Then on top of that, makes it possible for you to integrate into LinkedIn.com!

Check the video below to see exactly what I mean:

iPhone Business Card Scanner Description

Import contact information right from business card to your iPhone contacts, just take a photo of the business card and New Contact is added!

Business card Reader takes a photo then “reads” it using text recognition technology made by ABBYY and enters complete and accurate contact info into appropriate fiels of the iPhone address book.

Recognizes English, French, Italian, German and Spanish Business Cards.

Added Value: In a built-in browser iti s possible to make automated LinkedIn search of a scanned contact and read LinkedIn profile without leaving the Business Card Reader app.

Embedded browser uses the same filtering as Safari: if Safari is disabled this app will also turn off the browser.

You can download the iPhone Business Card Scanner App from Apple’s Appstore today – http://bit.ly/NLo3q

Via SolSie.com