The camera tool in many of these apps automatically enhances the image of a scanned business card (e.g., brightening it and straightening its alignment) to help produce better scan results through its OCR.
How often you have to make corrections on the scanned results from any of these apps depends partly on how capable its OCR software is.Īnother factor affecting the results is image quality. At least occasionally, you’ll need to make edits, such as correcting the spelling of a business or a person’s name. It’s impossible for these apps to produce perfect results every time.
And many allow you to export the data as a vCard email attachment, to a CSV file, or even to CRM platforms like Salesforce, though you may have to pay for a premium account to do so. Īdditionally, these apps typically offer cloud storage (either their own or via a third-party service like iCloud or Google Drive) so you can access the contact data from anywhere. These results can be added to your phone’s contacts app with a quick tap. Some apps’ OCR software can even recognize languages other than English - a plus for today’s global business environment. The app performs optical character recognition (OCR) on the photo to extract the information printed on the card and categorizes that info into fields (name, job title, phone number, email address, etc.). Using such an app, you snap a photo of a business card with your phone’s camera. Why not let a business card scanning app can do the work for you? But if you’re like many business professionals, you lack the time or motivation to type the information on them into your contacts. We’re hoping that you’ll be delighted by what you find.Throughout workdays, meetings and industry events, you probably collect a lot of business cards. Thanks for downloading FullContact Card Reader for Android. You get seamless integration into Salesforce and complete data safety.
Card Reader for Android lets you export your scanned cards directly to your device’s contact list.What else do you need to know? We thought you’d never ask! Further, with our direct Salesforce integration, we think it’s the perfect solution for sales professionals. The benefit to you? Exemplary data quality as compared to apps that use optical character recognition (OCR). While there are a few card reader applications available for Android, we can’t help but feel some pride in bringing one of the first that focuses on card transcription by real people. And for a limited time, use of the app is completely FREE! We’re happy to let you know that you can download Card Reader for Android today from Google Play. We’ve been hard at work to make sure that our Android version was every bit as great as Card Reader for iOS.
Accurate contact data is added back to your phone.Īfter releasing the FullContact Card Reader for iOS, one of the more common requests that we had was an app for Android. Just snap a photo of a card, then real people will transcribe it for you. It’s the easiest way for Android users to add business cards to their device or into Salesforce. Today we’re excited to announce FullContact Card Reader for Android.