ABBYY Business Card Reader

Meetings, negotiations, people - new business cards. Well if it is a personal page on the similarity about.meBut most often it will be offered a paper box with the name and surname. Within a few years most of these meetings and negotiations, business card holder can grow fat and it will have to be sorted by priority. Thus, only a portion of the contacts will remain in it. Restrictions is not our way, we will use to transfer information from business cards into the phone's address book.

In the AppStore is a wide range of applications for solving such a problem, one of them by the Russian company ABBYY, the creators of one of the best OCR systems.

Photographed card with ABBYY BSR will be a source to fill the following fields: name, surname, title, address, phone, e-mail, website. Responsible for identifying data compact mobile technology ABBYY Mobile OCR SDK devices built on FineReader technology.

Sometimes it makes sense to add specific information, such as birthdays or names pronunciation your partner from China, this created a list of additional fields.

Sometimes a small creative professions specialists look very impressive and at the same time not one OCR system It will not be able to transfer printed composition to the desired graph in the correct form. For such cases, ABBYY BCR allows to save the original photo, so you can get the necessary data in a small loss of or inability to identify its contents.

During its existence, ABBYY BCR matured to version 3.0. With the advent of the latter, there are Interesting features such as search information about a person or company in LinkedIn, Facebook, Hoover's or Twitter. Addresses business cards can be presented on Google Maps, and gathered information from various sources is added to an existing contact in the merging mode.

Let us turn to ABBYY Business Card Reader little testing. We start with the system requirements: 2 megapixel camera with autofocus, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4. Separately, I note that for iPhone 3G complete the work required Griffin Clarifi (Case with close-up lens), or ABBYY BCR on this model to become virtually useless, as the program warns.

I specifically created hothouse conditions for ABBYY BCR, mostly small take pictures indoors under artificial light, so it was this time. Let's see what happens.

1) a simple business card, regular font on a white background - great

2) a simple business card, regular font on colored background - great

3) complex card, colored background, content graphics - well

4) a very complex card, a secondary text, graphics content - Satisfactory

5) a very complex card, colored background and curly font - unsatisfactory

It only remains to add that ABBYY Business Card Reader works with 18 languages. The cost of this program amounts to $ 9.99. For people experiencing a need for such an application, the price tag would be acceptable, those who want to play certainly scare. However, both that and another version of the available light.

Page in the App Store:ABBYY Business Card Reader
Page in the App Store:ABBYY Business Card Reader Free
Developer website: ABBYY
cost: 9.99$
Personal rating: ★★★★★