Business Card Reader Pro - Business Card Scanner
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Instantly turn business cards into contacts, network and follow up easily!
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ABBYY Business Card Reader scans and manages all your business cards and contacts in a flash.
✓ 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
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With ABBYY Business Card Reader (BCR) you can:
✓ Instantly transfer business card data in 25 languages right onto your smartphone
✓ Sync cards data across smartphones, tablets and computers via ABBYY’s cloud and access your contacts from anywhere on ABBYYBCR.COM
✓ Save contacts in the BCR’s own storage – CardHolder- with convenient search, sorting and grouping functionality
✓ Share biz contacts data from BCR via e-mail or SMS and export to Excel
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KEY FEATURES
✓ Forget having to manually enter contact details into your smartphone. Unsurpassed data recognition and speed based on famous ABBYY Mobile OCR technology, eliminate having to correct or re-key business cards data, making creating new contacts easy and automatic.
✓ Sync cards across smartphones, tablets and computers to make business cards database trouble-free, updated and accessible from all your devices on ABBYYBCR.COM.
✓ Export data from scanned business cards to Salesforce Leads.
✓ Card Holder, the BCR’s own storage, provides convenient business card search, as well as sorting and grouping of contacts. You can quickly and easily find biz contact you need.
✓ ‘My cards' group in Card Holder allows to save your own business cards in different languages and for different biz occasions.
✓ Text notes to cards easy to make, edit, look through and find in BCR’s storage.
✓ Quickly verify contacts recognition results. The BCR highlights uncertain characters and displays the original image so that you can confirm or correct the app's output.
✓ Crop automatically cuts off all the background of the business card’s photo, making it looking like a real-life business card in the Card Holder.
✓ Forward recognized contact data from Card Holder via e-mail as VCard and JPEG file or via SMS as a plain text.
✓ Export to MS Excel to manage business cards database on your desktop.
✓ Find out more about your new biz contacts on the most popular social networks – Linkedln and Facebook right from your BCR!
✓ Search in Maps for the address of your biz contact with just one tap from ABBYY Business Card Reader
✓ Backup and restore contacts from saved business cards.
✓ Recognize business cards in 25 languages, including multilingual cards (maximum 3 languages simultaneously):
• 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
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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 mobile@abbyy.com
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FOLLOW US
Mobileblog.abbyy.com/en
fb.com/AbbyyMobile
Twitter @ABBYY_Mobile_WW
youtube.com/c/ABBYYMobile
ABBYYBCR.com
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ABBYY Business Card Reader makes your business cards and contacts work.
✓ 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
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With ABBYY Business Card Reader (BCR) you can:
✓ Instantly transfer business card data in 25 languages right onto your smartphone
✓ Sync cards data across smartphones, tablets and computers via ABBYY’s cloud and access your contacts from anywhere on ABBYYBCR.COM
✓ Save contacts in the BCR’s own storage – CardHolder- with convenient search, sorting and grouping functionality
✓ Share biz contacts data from BCR via e-mail or SMS and export to Excel
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KEY FEATURES
✓ Forget having to manually enter contact details into your smartphone. Unsurpassed data recognition and speed based on famous ABBYY Mobile OCR technology, eliminate having to correct or re-key business cards data, making creating new contacts easy and automatic.
✓ Sync cards across smartphones, tablets and computers to make business cards database trouble-free, updated and accessible from all your devices on ABBYYBCR.COM.
✓ Export data from scanned business cards to Salesforce Leads.
✓ Card Holder, the BCR’s own storage, provides convenient business card search, as well as sorting and grouping of contacts. You can quickly and easily find biz contact you need.
✓ ‘My cards' group in Card Holder allows to save your own business cards in different languages and for different biz occasions.
✓ Text notes to cards easy to make, edit, look through and find in BCR’s storage.
✓ Quickly verify contacts recognition results. The BCR highlights uncertain characters and displays the original image so that you can confirm or correct the app's output.
✓ Crop automatically cuts off all the background of the business card’s photo, making it looking like a real-life business card in the Card Holder.
✓ Forward recognized contact data from Card Holder via e-mail as VCard and JPEG file or via SMS as a plain text.
✓ Export to MS Excel to manage business cards database on your desktop.
✓ Find out more about your new biz contacts on the most popular social networks – Linkedln and Facebook right from your BCR!
✓ Search in Maps for the address of your biz contact with just one tap from ABBYY Business Card Reader
✓ Backup and restore contacts from saved business cards.
✓ Recognize business cards in 25 languages, including multilingual cards (maximum 3 languages simultaneously):
• 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
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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 mobile@abbyy.com
--------------------
FOLLOW US
Mobileblog.abbyy.com/en
fb.com/AbbyyMobile
Twitter @ABBYY_Mobile_WW
youtube.com/c/ABBYYMobile
ABBYYBCR.com
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ABBYY Business Card Reader makes your business cards and contacts work.
App Store
ABBYY Business Card Reader –The World’s Fastest Business Card Scanner & Contact Management App for iPhone and iPad!
Recommended by The New York Times, CNN, The Telegraph, Computer Business Review, Macworld.
Winner of the RISING STAR Award in the Mobile Star Awards
ABBYY Business Card Reader easily & simply captures & stores contact from business cards in 25 languages to your iPhone and iPad. The recognized data can be saved in either your device contacts or the app digital storage.
KEY FEATURES
• QUICK AND ACCURATE SCANNING
ABBYYs optical character recognition technology provides quick & accurate recognition of all contact information: names, organizations, phone numbers, e-mail addresses, etc.
• AUTO-CLICK PHOTO FEATURE
Automatically focuses on the business card, detects its edges, crops any extraneous background & captures an image of the card all by itself.
• EASY CHECK OF RECOGNIZED DATA
The app highlights “unusual” characters with blue color and displays the original image so that you can quickly confirm the output of the app.
• APPLE WATCH APP. You won’t need to reach for your iPhone or iPad to remember somebody’s name. View contacts and make phone calls right from BCR on your Apple Watch!
• AUTOMATIC NORMALIZATION OF PHONE AND EXTENTION NUMBERS
BCR will automatically put in all the missing parts so that you can reach the contact even if the country code was omitted in print.
• AUTOCOMPLETION OF ADDRESSES
BCR corrects any typos and fills in the missing address fields so you can easily find it on the map.
• SYNC AND AUTOMATIC OR MANUAL BACKUPS
Sync card data across platforms to make database updated and accessible from all your devices on ABBYYBCR.COM. Automatic and manual backups to archive and restore to another device.
• Export contacts to Salesforce Leads (premium account required). BCR can export business cards to Enterprise, Unlimited, and Performance Editions of SF license. Professional Edition does not allow BCR export.
• Set up voice commands in Siri Shortcuts app to open business cards by voicing the name of the owner.
• Spotlight Search to find business cards from BCR
• Export business cards to MS Excel in .CSV format.
• Smart Facebook and LinkedIn search: connect social media account to the business card and auto upload photo of contact from Facebook.
• Search in iPhone Maps for the address of your contacts.
• Exchange digitally and forward recognized contacts via e-mail as VCard or JPEG files or via SMS as a plain text.
• Support 25 languages including recognition of multilingual cards.
- French
- German
- Greek
- Japanese
- Indonesian
- Italian
- Korean
- Norwegian (both Bokmal and Nynorsk)
- Polish
- Portuguese (Portugal)
- Portuguese (Brazil)
- Russian
- Spanish
- Swedish
- Turkish
- Ukrainian
The free version provides 10 card recognition. Enable Premium to get unlimited functionality:
• Unlimited business card recognition
• Export to Excel
• Automatic backup
• No ads
Premium Account auto-renewable subscription allows using all functions of this app. Subscription length periods: 1 month with 7 days free trial, and 1 year. The subscription is automatically renewed at the end of the period unless you choose to cancel the subscription at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Payment will be charged to your iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. You can manage your subscription and switch off the auto-renewal by accessing your Account Settings after purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited if you purchase a subscription to that publication.
Read us:
Mobileblog.abbyy.com/en
Twitter @abbyy_mobile_ww
Facebook.com/AbbyyMobile
Privacy Policy abbyy.com/privacy
Terms of Use abbyybcr.com/en/eula
Looking forward to your feedback on the App Store!
Recommended by The New York Times, CNN, The Telegraph, Computer Business Review, Macworld.
Winner of the RISING STAR Award in the Mobile Star Awards
ABBYY Business Card Reader easily & simply captures & stores contact from business cards in 25 languages to your iPhone and iPad. The recognized data can be saved in either your device contacts or the app digital storage.
KEY FEATURES
• QUICK AND ACCURATE SCANNING
ABBYYs optical character recognition technology provides quick & accurate recognition of all contact information: names, organizations, phone numbers, e-mail addresses, etc.
• AUTO-CLICK PHOTO FEATURE
Automatically focuses on the business card, detects its edges, crops any extraneous background & captures an image of the card all by itself.
• EASY CHECK OF RECOGNIZED DATA
The app highlights “unusual” characters with blue color and displays the original image so that you can quickly confirm the output of the app.
• APPLE WATCH APP. You won’t need to reach for your iPhone or iPad to remember somebody’s name. View contacts and make phone calls right from BCR on your Apple Watch!
• AUTOMATIC NORMALIZATION OF PHONE AND EXTENTION NUMBERS
BCR will automatically put in all the missing parts so that you can reach the contact even if the country code was omitted in print.
• AUTOCOMPLETION OF ADDRESSES
BCR corrects any typos and fills in the missing address fields so you can easily find it on the map.
• SYNC AND AUTOMATIC OR MANUAL BACKUPS
Sync card data across platforms to make database updated and accessible from all your devices on ABBYYBCR.COM. Automatic and manual backups to archive and restore to another device.
• Export contacts to Salesforce Leads (premium account required). BCR can export business cards to Enterprise, Unlimited, and Performance Editions of SF license. Professional Edition does not allow BCR export.
• Set up voice commands in Siri Shortcuts app to open business cards by voicing the name of the owner.
• Spotlight Search to find business cards from BCR
• Export business cards to MS Excel in .CSV format.
• Smart Facebook and LinkedIn search: connect social media account to the business card and auto upload photo of contact from Facebook.
• Search in iPhone Maps for the address of your contacts.
• Exchange digitally and forward recognized contacts via e-mail as VCard or JPEG files or via SMS as a plain text.
• Support 25 languages including recognition of multilingual cards.
- French
- German
- Greek
- Japanese
- Indonesian
- Italian
- Korean
- Norwegian (both Bokmal and Nynorsk)
- Polish
- Portuguese (Portugal)
- Portuguese (Brazil)
- Russian
- Spanish
- Swedish
- Turkish
- Ukrainian
The free version provides 10 card recognition. Enable Premium to get unlimited functionality:
• Unlimited business card recognition
• Export to Excel
• Automatic backup
• No ads
Premium Account auto-renewable subscription allows using all functions of this app. Subscription length periods: 1 month with 7 days free trial, and 1 year. The subscription is automatically renewed at the end of the period unless you choose to cancel the subscription at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Payment will be charged to your iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. You can manage your subscription and switch off the auto-renewal by accessing your Account Settings after purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited if you purchase a subscription to that publication.
Read us:
Mobileblog.abbyy.com/en
Twitter @abbyy_mobile_ww
Facebook.com/AbbyyMobile
Privacy Policy abbyy.com/privacy
Terms of Use abbyybcr.com/en/eula
Looking forward to your feedback on the App Store!
Write a Review
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Perfect for what I need! (Japanese/English)
Aug 3, 2020 I looked at a bunch of apps, and finally decided on this one. I am quite satisfied! The scanning of both Japanese and English characters is fine, and I don’t mind that I have to revise sometimes. It syncs with my Mac and iPhone Contacts quickly, and is easily exported for backup. I love that I can connect to LinkedIn and Facebook, and that the person’s photo can sometimes come up (I can’t figure out, though, how I can determine which photo can be used). Love it! The only feature I would like is if the business card scanned image can be exported along with the other data in the csv file, if that is even remotely possible. I know I can save a picture of the card in my phone, but I prefer not to. Thanks again for creating this!more -
Jan 15, 2021 Not perfect, every card takes some review and revision, but definitely quicker than putting it in without an app! -
Decent App for scanning
Mar 9, 2020 Has a good set of tools, but not initially easy to get to. Have to go thru screens of this and that to do so. Also, it like a number of apps these days need an annual type of subscription to use all the features. I think this should be clearer as to what it does cost. Perhaps this is an Apple issue not the developer. Finally, the previous Feb reviewer talks about 7/8 people who work live paycheck to paycheck. This is just factually incorrect - all you have to so is review the data on city by city, by job category type (using the workers compensation categories) to see cost of living vs income is not even close to 7/8. Ridiculous unsupported statements that become true because they are repeated over and over. Even above that “paycheck to paycheck” does not account for how the paycheck is spent and so this phrase just becomes a loaded phrase. But back to the review - a useful app! One suggestion would be to somehow connect it to the Apple contacts app, altho that may take away from the data base this app uses. Thanks.more -
Feb 5, 2019 it does transcribe info well for Western cards but at times struggles with the atypical addresses you see in countries like Indonesia. It would be nice if you could store the card photos on an external memory card rather than needing to keep them on the internal memory. Other than these two items I would rate it as one of the best apps out there for this purpose. After using it for almost 2 years I would not change.more -
In Theory...Amazing. In Practice...Meh.
Feb 1, 2020 I love this tool and I’ve recommended it to many, many people. It has been brought to my attention that the subscription based charging is problematic. If I stop subscribing, where do my cards go? Why can we not purchase it with different rates for number of cards? I’m sure subscription fees are great as a business model for you, recurring revenue and all, but for those that may be on the job search or not using it as often, it’s too expensive a tool. In a day and age when all developers are being taught to look to inclusiveness in their design models, is there not a way to make this more accessible to the hordes of people that need a tool like this but don’t have the budget for recurring charges? Since 7 out of 8 people in our country are living paycheck to paycheck, can you not design a business model that enables people to use such a valuable tool (in job searches especially) while still paying you for your valuable work?more
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Oct 2, 2018 Very poor quality and company. Don't buy anything from they. All apps overpriced . After you bought you to them are not interesting any moreafter you bought you to them are not interesting any more, the application will become free and on a subscription. Order number does not suite them. Before answering contact support, already communicated.more -
Cannot use app
Nov 19, 2019 Requires you to agree to ABBY’s terms regarding agreement to share personal data. If this can be revoked, then why even ask for it at all? Also, allowance of 3rd Party Advertising, which means that there is a sharing of my personal data with other companies. For myself, these terms are unacceptable. While, true, all private data might not be shared, there are no guarantees, that it won’t. As far as, GDPR, I don’t think most people know what that is, (including myself) and ABBY might want to elaborate its meaning to others and, more specifically, how being GDPR compliant provides justification for denying access to this application to the end user. I would very much like to use this application; however, being required to agree to the privacy and advertising terms, again. for myself, is unacceptable.more -
Apr 12, 2019 Does not sync with Google contacts. One has to manage double contacts. Practically useless due to lack of sync with Google of iPhone contacts. -
Info on app site
Nov 1, 2018 I cannot state clear enough information was posted on the App when you looking at it to see if it something you want. I think it is ridiculous to charge that amount for something you can do yourself by taking a photo with the business card and putting it into an album. Some of us are on fixed incomes due to physical limitations, these people have a lot of business cards from their doctors. Perhaps you could offer part of the app for free to hold 30 cards to put all their doctors cards using the app it could save somebody’s life. So if somebody has some kind of a medical problems and and needs emergency they would look in your phone for any information on doctors that you have on the phone .more -
Mar 14, 2019 spyware... developers say to turn off their spyware features in the paid pro app after enabling them. they force you to agree to these ToC before the app can now start. after the horse has bolted they close the gate. No thanks.
- Do you conduct business abroad? Easily manage your international contacts with a business card scanner that recognizes 25 different languages
- Easily share your contacts with others, either by email, text, or Excel spreadsheet
- The advanced scanning software alerts you to any possible errors in the scanned copy, so you can make sure it's correct
Reviewed by Olivia Cordell on May 11, 2018
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Perfect for what I need! (Japanese/English)
Aug 3, 2020 I looked at a bunch of apps, and finally decided on this one. I am quite satisfied! The scanning of both Japanese and English characters is fine, and I don’t mind that I have to revise sometimes. It syncs with my Mac and iPhone Contacts quickly, and is easily exported for backup. I love that I can connect to LinkedIn and Facebook, and that the person’s photo can sometimes come up (I can’t figure out, though, how I can determine which photo can be used). Love it! The only feature I would like is if the business card scanned image can be exported along with the other data in the csv file, if that is even remotely possible. I know I can save a picture of the card in my phone, but I prefer not to. Thanks again for creating this!more -
Jan 22, 2019 I'll give it a 5 star rating, I still would like to see some improvement on the transcoding option. It would be great for the consumer to select what fields we want to import to make the process faster. meaning if I just want names and emails there should be an option for the app to scan for those items. great app overall.👍🏽more -
Not Perfect But Fine
Mar 29, 2018 I ingested around 200 old business cards in maybe 2-3 hours. The app crashed 5-6 times but to no ill effect. Parsing of card content was sometimes inconsistent for the same card. Character recognition was by no means perfect. Also doesn’t seem to flag duplicates. But all in all it worked like a charm and since my personal use is purely archival and it stores the original image to refer to it is just fine. Better than fine. A few hundred cards to go and then I will never store another and will return from trips and shows card free!! Just two incredibly stupidly designed business cards out of 200 failed to ingest! And one company’s graphics refused to photograph without enormous effort. Importing into iOS address book, into SalesForce, into Excel is huge if you need. Also knowing where and when you ingested the card is terrific. Great app in terms of utility value. Fair subscription cost. Chose on account of an independent comparative review and it’s very high App Store rating.more -
Feb 12, 2019 This app has been great for my business. I meet 20 to 30 new contacts weekly and I am able to snap a picture of their business card and I can capture all the information at one time. The software is great at picking up the data off the card and in putting it into the app. Extremly easy to use and the web base download is fast and easy also. Great product!more -
Feb 13, 2020 Love the app. Simple and effective way to store business cards. Good export and printouts to Excel or Contact databases. Have to do a little editing most the time upon export but that is minimal. Also needs a search feature for type of business to find contacts based on keyword. I just use the prefix or postfux in the name optiins and put info like "food vendor" etc. Then will pull up all food vendors when I search for "food" Etc.more
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Jan 15, 2021 Not perfect, every card takes some review and revision, but definitely quicker than putting it in without an app! -
Decent App for scanning
Mar 9, 2020 Has a good set of tools, but not initially easy to get to. Have to go thru screens of this and that to do so. Also, it like a number of apps these days need an annual type of subscription to use all the features. I think this should be clearer as to what it does cost. Perhaps this is an Apple issue not the developer. Finally, the previous Feb reviewer talks about 7/8 people who work live paycheck to paycheck. This is just factually incorrect - all you have to so is review the data on city by city, by job category type (using the workers compensation categories) to see cost of living vs income is not even close to 7/8. Ridiculous unsupported statements that become true because they are repeated over and over. Even above that “paycheck to paycheck” does not account for how the paycheck is spent and so this phrase just becomes a loaded phrase. But back to the review - a useful app! One suggestion would be to somehow connect it to the Apple contacts app, altho that may take away from the data base this app uses. Thanks.more -
Feb 5, 2019 it does transcribe info well for Western cards but at times struggles with the atypical addresses you see in countries like Indonesia. It would be nice if you could store the card photos on an external memory card rather than needing to keep them on the internal memory. Other than these two items I would rate it as one of the best apps out there for this purpose. After using it for almost 2 years I would not change.more -
Mar 15, 2019 needs improvement but, does what it says it does. I find the navigation clumsy. the infintecimal nature of business card formats make a "perfect" app is both difficult and worth paying for. Let me k ow when you get it dialed in. I'll keep using it and updating.more -
Very creative and very practical/useful tool
Oct 16, 2017 Completely worth it! Great concept and fun design especially with nice features such as being able to send an email automatically, with your info in the body and your card picture attached, to those whose business cards you have uploaded. The reason it is not 5 stars is because ok the last few cards I used (which were all the same company but different individuals) it got the spelling and certain info wrong on them so that I had to go in and manually rewrite parts. Not a major issue but something that is there. Also first 15 are free and a fee if you want to add more. Yearly fee is 29+ - not bad.more
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In Theory...Amazing. In Practice...Meh.
Feb 1, 2020 I love this tool and I’ve recommended it to many, many people. It has been brought to my attention that the subscription based charging is problematic. If I stop subscribing, where do my cards go? Why can we not purchase it with different rates for number of cards? I’m sure subscription fees are great as a business model for you, recurring revenue and all, but for those that may be on the job search or not using it as often, it’s too expensive a tool. In a day and age when all developers are being taught to look to inclusiveness in their design models, is there not a way to make this more accessible to the hordes of people that need a tool like this but don’t have the budget for recurring charges? Since 7 out of 8 people in our country are living paycheck to paycheck, can you not design a business model that enables people to use such a valuable tool (in job searches especially) while still paying you for your valuable work?more -
Economical solution for card scanning
Aug 8, 2018 I spent $25 for an annual subscription and that seems like a good deal given costs for similar solutions. The plus side- fast scanning, simple intuitive interface, export to excel. The down side- from the first 10 cards I scanned, only 2 picked up the email address and it seemed that several didn’t pick up the name of the organization. And, if you find you want to upload a contact without a business card, you have to go into settings and select the “create your own business card” option and just use that feature to add other contacts without cards. That’s not as intuitive as the rest of the interface. All in all, my hope is I will be collecting hundreds of cards this way and making it easier to upload into Salesforce. I haven’t tried that yet. This is just my day one feedback.more -
Good but not great
Dec 13, 2018 Most features of this app are great, and the recognition is more accurate than other card scanning apps. The main downfall has to do with the text, navigation and email ‘buttons’ or lack thereof. ABBYY would do well to adopt the more user friendly interface of CamCard, when the most used features have buttons on a banner above the card info, so you can quickly call,text, email or load the directions to the address in a navigation app of your choosing. For navigation, simply seeing the pin on a map within the app is mostly useless for navigation purposes, and ultimately renders this app ineffective holistically. Please address this, I paid for the premium features not realizing this, and will ultimately switch to CamCard for its more user friendly interface/functionality.more -
Need some improvement
Dec 6, 2020 The app is good, scan and reads the cards quick and is fairly intuitive. But there are some important needs for improvement - Application crashes far too many times. Scanned +300 cards and the app crashed more than 50 times, luckily with no loss of info - App should recognize and learn from prior scanning. If you scan several cards from the same firm, it would be good that once 1 is corrected, then forth coming are scanned correctly - Scan is ok, but could be improved, specially for international business cards. Some scanning errors are not understandable - Should try to follow a format for the phones, particularly when there are international cards so they are all recorded properly - Maybe a good idea would be for the app to lear. If I don’t use nicknames, and rename it as the 2nd last name, well that could be the result next scan. Hope to see further updates to the app that take care of some improvements that could be made.more -
Nov 28, 2018 It's good, until one day I noticed that all my contacts wiped out. Now it's zero contact. Not able to restore backup. Can someone help Pls?
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Ok but design flaws
Dec 30, 2017 The OCR does a decent job but I hate that the send your card to others feature starts enabled. What if I grab my boss's card or some stranger whose card I just want to have for future reference? Both are true in my case, and I am now wondering if my info has been improperly sent to others. Finally, the categories it uses to keep track of the information should be more carefully thought through. Some feel repetitious while others are lacking. I will not be upgrading and since I only get 10 scans I will need to find another program.more -
Great concept but HORRIBLE UX!!
Jun 7, 2019 How can a paid subscription have no option to contact support?!! The export function is broken, there is no info on how to log into the cloud, help links are broken, and even after I managed to dig up what seemed like a ticket system and spent the time providing thorough explanation of the issues, after submitting the screen went completely blank! No confirmation, no emails, nothing! If this is the paid service, I don’t want to know what the free version does. Get it together! You’re a software company!more -
Works but too limited
Sep 5, 2018 I had no problem with the apps functionality but you can only load 10 cards without a monthly subscription. Anyone who even considers looking up an app to store business cards already has more than ten cards to store or they wouldn’t need it in the first place. $25 a month is outrageous. One time maybe but I think for $300 a year I can come up with a better solution.more -
Works well, but is NOT free
Oct 10, 2019 This app works well and does a better job with its recognition software. It does a good job recognizing cards. However, the “free” version is not really free, you are only allowed 10 cards to scan. The price of $60 is ridiculous for this app. Even their method to buy “recognitions” and their sale and promotion prices are ridiculous.more -
Struggles with almost every card I scan
Apr 20, 2018 It has a real problem recognizing professional designations following a name so it treats the last name as middle and puts the letters from designation in the last name field - have to correct manually. Also adds random words into address block 50% of time.more
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Oct 2, 2018 Very poor quality and company. Don't buy anything from they. All apps overpriced . After you bought you to them are not interesting any moreafter you bought you to them are not interesting any more, the application will become free and on a subscription. Order number does not suite them. Before answering contact support, already communicated.more -
Cannot use app
Nov 19, 2019 Requires you to agree to ABBY’s terms regarding agreement to share personal data. If this can be revoked, then why even ask for it at all? Also, allowance of 3rd Party Advertising, which means that there is a sharing of my personal data with other companies. For myself, these terms are unacceptable. While, true, all private data might not be shared, there are no guarantees, that it won’t. As far as, GDPR, I don’t think most people know what that is, (including myself) and ABBY might want to elaborate its meaning to others and, more specifically, how being GDPR compliant provides justification for denying access to this application to the end user. I would very much like to use this application; however, being required to agree to the privacy and advertising terms, again. for myself, is unacceptable.more -
Apr 12, 2019 Does not sync with Google contacts. One has to manage double contacts. Practically useless due to lack of sync with Google of iPhone contacts. -
Info on app site
Nov 1, 2018 I cannot state clear enough information was posted on the App when you looking at it to see if it something you want. I think it is ridiculous to charge that amount for something you can do yourself by taking a photo with the business card and putting it into an album. Some of us are on fixed incomes due to physical limitations, these people have a lot of business cards from their doctors. Perhaps you could offer part of the app for free to hold 30 cards to put all their doctors cards using the app it could save somebody’s life. So if somebody has some kind of a medical problems and and needs emergency they would look in your phone for any information on doctors that you have on the phone .more -
Mar 14, 2019 spyware... developers say to turn off their spyware features in the paid pro app after enabling them. they force you to agree to these ToC before the app can now start. after the horse has bolted they close the gate. No thanks.
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It keeps showing black screen after scanning a card photo from gallery. I had to uninstall it even I have a paid subscription
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BEWARE...don't trust this app to store your important contacts! It stripped away phone numbers, email addresses and notes entered by me over a three year period. I requested help from their support group to testore my information but they informed me that it was not stored. I'm looking for a reliable alternative to use for keeping my critiical business contacts.
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Perfect for what I need! (Japanese/English)
I looked at a bunch of apps, and finally decided on this one. I am quite satisfied! The scanning of both Japanese and English characters is fine, and I don’t mind that I have to revise sometimes. It syncs with my Mac and iPhone Contacts quickly, and is easily exported for backup. I love that I can connect to LinkedIn and Facebook, and that the person’s photo can sometimes come up (I can’t figure out, though, how I can determine which photo can be used). Love it! The only feature I would like is if the business card scanned image can be exported along with the other data in the csv file, if that is even remotely possible. I know I can save a picture of the card in my phone, but I prefer not to. Thanks again for creating this! -
Not perfect, every card takes some review and revision, but definitely quicker than putting it in without an app!
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Decent App for scanning
Has a good set of tools, but not initially easy to get to. Have to go thru screens of this and that to do so. Also, it like a number of apps these days need an annual type of subscription to use all the features. I think this should be clearer as to what it does cost. Perhaps this is an Apple issue not the developer. Finally, the previous Feb reviewer talks about 7/8 people who work live paycheck to paycheck. This is just factually incorrect - all you have to so is review the data on city by city, by job category type (using the workers compensation categories) to see cost of living vs income is not even close to 7/8. Ridiculous unsupported statements that become true because they are repeated over and over. Even above that “paycheck to paycheck” does not account for how the paycheck is spent and so this phrase just becomes a loaded phrase. But back to the review - a useful app! One suggestion would be to somehow connect it to the Apple contacts app, altho that may take away from the data base this app uses. Thanks. -
it does transcribe info well for Western cards but at times struggles with the atypical addresses you see in countries like Indonesia. It would be nice if you could store the card photos on an external memory card rather than needing to keep them on the internal memory. Other than these two items I would rate it as one of the best apps out there for this purpose. After using it for almost 2 years I would not change.
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In Theory...Amazing. In Practice...Meh.
I love this tool and I’ve recommended it to many, many people. It has been brought to my attention that the subscription based charging is problematic. If I stop subscribing, where do my cards go? Why can we not purchase it with different rates for number of cards? I’m sure subscription fees are great as a business model for you, recurring revenue and all, but for those that may be on the job search or not using it as often, it’s too expensive a tool. In a day and age when all developers are being taught to look to inclusiveness in their design models, is there not a way to make this more accessible to the hordes of people that need a tool like this but don’t have the budget for recurring charges? Since 7 out of 8 people in our country are living paycheck to paycheck, can you not design a business model that enables people to use such a valuable tool (in job searches especially) while still paying you for your valuable work? -
I'll give it a 5 star rating, I still would like to see some improvement on the transcoding option. It would be great for the consumer to select what fields we want to import to make the process faster. meaning if I just want names and emails there should be an option for the app to scan for those items. great app overall.👍🏽
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Not Perfect But Fine
I ingested around 200 old business cards in maybe 2-3 hours. The app crashed 5-6 times but to no ill effect. Parsing of card content was sometimes inconsistent for the same card. Character recognition was by no means perfect. Also doesn’t seem to flag duplicates. But all in all it worked like a charm and since my personal use is purely archival and it stores the original image to refer to it is just fine. Better than fine. A few hundred cards to go and then I will never store another and will return from trips and shows card free!! Just two incredibly stupidly designed business cards out of 200 failed to ingest! And one company’s graphics refused to photograph without enormous effort. Importing into iOS address book, into SalesForce, into Excel is huge if you need. Also knowing where and when you ingested the card is terrific. Great app in terms of utility value. Fair subscription cost. Chose on account of an independent comparative review and it’s very high App Store rating. -
This app has been great for my business. I meet 20 to 30 new contacts weekly and I am able to snap a picture of their business card and I can capture all the information at one time. The software is great at picking up the data off the card and in putting it into the app. Extremly easy to use and the web base download is fast and easy also. Great product!
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Economical solution for card scanning
I spent $25 for an annual subscription and that seems like a good deal given costs for similar solutions. The plus side- fast scanning, simple intuitive interface, export to excel. The down side- from the first 10 cards I scanned, only 2 picked up the email address and it seemed that several didn’t pick up the name of the organization. And, if you find you want to upload a contact without a business card, you have to go into settings and select the “create your own business card” option and just use that feature to add other contacts without cards. That’s not as intuitive as the rest of the interface. All in all, my hope is I will be collecting hundreds of cards this way and making it easier to upload into Salesforce. I haven’t tried that yet. This is just my day one feedback. -
Love the app. Simple and effective way to store business cards. Good export and printouts to Excel or Contact databases. Have to do a little editing most the time upon export but that is minimal. Also needs a search feature for type of business to find contacts based on keyword. I just use the prefix or postfux in the name optiins and put info like "food vendor" etc. Then will pull up all food vendors when I search for "food" Etc.
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Great App!
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It keeps showing black screen after scanning a card photo from gallery. I had to uninstall it even I have a paid subscription
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GREAT APP, but please add Bulgarian language for recognition!
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Great app
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Awesome app
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Great card scanner
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Great app
I’ve been using this to manage all the business cards I come across and it has helped me become very organized. Thank you. -
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Must have app
I have referred this app to multiple people and it works great!
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Perfect for what I need! (Japanese/English)
I looked at a bunch of apps, and finally decided on this one. I am quite satisfied! The scanning of both Japanese and English characters is fine, and I don’t mind that I have to revise sometimes. It syncs with my Mac and iPhone Contacts quickly, and is easily exported for backup. I love that I can connect to LinkedIn and Facebook, and that the person’s photo can sometimes come up (I can’t figure out, though, how I can determine which photo can be used). Love it! The only feature I would like is if the business card scanned image can be exported along with the other data in the csv file, if that is even remotely possible. I know I can save a picture of the card in my phone, but I prefer not to. Thanks again for creating this! -
I'll give it a 5 star rating, I still would like to see some improvement on the transcoding option. It would be great for the consumer to select what fields we want to import to make the process faster. meaning if I just want names and emails there should be an option for the app to scan for those items. great app overall.👍🏽
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Not Perfect But Fine
I ingested around 200 old business cards in maybe 2-3 hours. The app crashed 5-6 times but to no ill effect. Parsing of card content was sometimes inconsistent for the same card. Character recognition was by no means perfect. Also doesn’t seem to flag duplicates. But all in all it worked like a charm and since my personal use is purely archival and it stores the original image to refer to it is just fine. Better than fine. A few hundred cards to go and then I will never store another and will return from trips and shows card free!! Just two incredibly stupidly designed business cards out of 200 failed to ingest! And one company’s graphics refused to photograph without enormous effort. Importing into iOS address book, into SalesForce, into Excel is huge if you need. Also knowing where and when you ingested the card is terrific. Great app in terms of utility value. Fair subscription cost. Chose on account of an independent comparative review and it’s very high App Store rating. -
This app has been great for my business. I meet 20 to 30 new contacts weekly and I am able to snap a picture of their business card and I can capture all the information at one time. The software is great at picking up the data off the card and in putting it into the app. Extremly easy to use and the web base download is fast and easy also. Great product!
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Love the app. Simple and effective way to store business cards. Good export and printouts to Excel or Contact databases. Have to do a little editing most the time upon export but that is minimal. Also needs a search feature for type of business to find contacts based on keyword. I just use the prefix or postfux in the name optiins and put info like "food vendor" etc. Then will pull up all food vendors when I search for "food" Etc.
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Wow! Impeccable fn
ABBYY BCR app is so very superior to all other business card import apps that I have tried over the years, both free and paid ones. ABBYY BCR automatically captured and imported the contact info from the card accurately into the appropriate places. I didn’t have to edit or add any info. It also grabbed a pic of the card and corrected the image angles so the pic of the card looks centered and perfect. You then have import options including to your own contacts. I like that you can keep the pic of the business card in the app. I am not a working professional so I don’t have a subscription. I would recommend it. Though I do get subscriptions just to support app development. I don’t use this often enough. I did just see that there are a variety of paid options in addition to the full paid subscription. Thank you big time for that! Thanks for a great app and for maintaining it. Even though I can’t continue to use it. -
I’ve tried them ALL, and this is the one to get
None of these packages have 100 % accuracy, but this one comes close. Further, this app connects to LinkedIn, and it has easy editing. Finally, if you don’t think it scanned something correctly, it allows you to send an email to the developer with the details of the improper scan (assuming you don’t mind having the developer see the card). Don’t know if they read the email and do anything with it, this feature at least makes you feel better. -
I've been using this app for 5 years and it is working pretty smooth and efficent. Thank you!
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Very Accurate Picture Taker
This software works much better than its name would suggest. A lot of programs like this have names that use Usability principles in the name itself. This leads us to believe the coding must also be as well thought out or as easy to use as the name is to remember. Not so. I’ve done Agile development as a Designer. That’s the part with the pictures and buttons, and animations, and what could bottoms how an app moves around in response to end user button-taps (in the case of a touch screen.) This app has clearly given their QA team the teeth to hold up release until all the annoying problems are fixed. There’s something called a “backlog” in software development. Unsuccessful app makers (and software makers alike) focus on release dates instead of long-term customer loyalty. This software developer clearly chose the latter. Recommended. -
not perfect, few missing features, but probably best on the market. Android version is a bit inferior to iOS one.
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Not perfect, every card takes some review and revision, but definitely quicker than putting it in without an app!
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Decent App for scanning
Has a good set of tools, but not initially easy to get to. Have to go thru screens of this and that to do so. Also, it like a number of apps these days need an annual type of subscription to use all the features. I think this should be clearer as to what it does cost. Perhaps this is an Apple issue not the developer. Finally, the previous Feb reviewer talks about 7/8 people who work live paycheck to paycheck. This is just factually incorrect - all you have to so is review the data on city by city, by job category type (using the workers compensation categories) to see cost of living vs income is not even close to 7/8. Ridiculous unsupported statements that become true because they are repeated over and over. Even above that “paycheck to paycheck” does not account for how the paycheck is spent and so this phrase just becomes a loaded phrase. But back to the review - a useful app! One suggestion would be to somehow connect it to the Apple contacts app, altho that may take away from the data base this app uses. Thanks. -
it does transcribe info well for Western cards but at times struggles with the atypical addresses you see in countries like Indonesia. It would be nice if you could store the card photos on an external memory card rather than needing to keep them on the internal memory. Other than these two items I would rate it as one of the best apps out there for this purpose. After using it for almost 2 years I would not change.
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needs improvement but, does what it says it does. I find the navigation clumsy. the infintecimal nature of business card formats make a "perfect" app is both difficult and worth paying for. Let me k ow when you get it dialed in. I'll keep using it and updating.
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Very creative and very practical/useful tool
Completely worth it! Great concept and fun design especially with nice features such as being able to send an email automatically, with your info in the body and your card picture attached, to those whose business cards you have uploaded. The reason it is not 5 stars is because ok the last few cards I used (which were all the same company but different individuals) it got the spelling and certain info wrong on them so that I had to go in and manually rewrite parts. Not a major issue but something that is there. Also first 15 are free and a fee if you want to add more. Yearly fee is 29+ - not bad. -
Works well. Occasional miscquisition of info, but not bad. Works best when you take the photo first and read it into the app rather than taking the photo within the app itself.
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Great tool and resource! A little clunky but that’s ok!
This app helps me organize my contacts from business. I always have them with me and don’t have to carry a big book around or use up space with pictures of cards! I don’t even have to obtain the business card! Thank you for that! This app is still a little clunky. Sometimes I have to re-enter some or all of the info that was misread or the picture doesn’t automatically take (which can be a pain when I only have one hand). I have learned to work around it, tho. -
Could be improved by having an easier way to enter data manually when they are not caught by the Ocr engine and by not systematically requesting confirmation for saving the cards. Otherwise reliable and efficient app.
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nice app but there is a difficulty to reshot or to import new photo in a existing entry
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May have been a BIG mistake
Using the Fine Reader on my pc for scanning I was expecting much better product. I previously used ScanBizCards but they dropped web access. The web access with BCR is just plain crap. No import function exists. Edit is OK. Sync with contacts appears to be one way only. Scanning is just ok. ScanBizCards did much better job of suggesting correct company too. There is no rescan functionality. You have to delete and start over. Don’t pay for this!
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In Theory...Amazing. In Practice...Meh.
I love this tool and I’ve recommended it to many, many people. It has been brought to my attention that the subscription based charging is problematic. If I stop subscribing, where do my cards go? Why can we not purchase it with different rates for number of cards? I’m sure subscription fees are great as a business model for you, recurring revenue and all, but for those that may be on the job search or not using it as often, it’s too expensive a tool. In a day and age when all developers are being taught to look to inclusiveness in their design models, is there not a way to make this more accessible to the hordes of people that need a tool like this but don’t have the budget for recurring charges? Since 7 out of 8 people in our country are living paycheck to paycheck, can you not design a business model that enables people to use such a valuable tool (in job searches especially) while still paying you for your valuable work? -
Economical solution for card scanning
I spent $25 for an annual subscription and that seems like a good deal given costs for similar solutions. The plus side- fast scanning, simple intuitive interface, export to excel. The down side- from the first 10 cards I scanned, only 2 picked up the email address and it seemed that several didn’t pick up the name of the organization. And, if you find you want to upload a contact without a business card, you have to go into settings and select the “create your own business card” option and just use that feature to add other contacts without cards. That’s not as intuitive as the rest of the interface. All in all, my hope is I will be collecting hundreds of cards this way and making it easier to upload into Salesforce. I haven’t tried that yet. This is just my day one feedback. -
Good but not great
Most features of this app are great, and the recognition is more accurate than other card scanning apps. The main downfall has to do with the text, navigation and email ‘buttons’ or lack thereof. ABBYY would do well to adopt the more user friendly interface of CamCard, when the most used features have buttons on a banner above the card info, so you can quickly call,text, email or load the directions to the address in a navigation app of your choosing. For navigation, simply seeing the pin on a map within the app is mostly useless for navigation purposes, and ultimately renders this app ineffective holistically. Please address this, I paid for the premium features not realizing this, and will ultimately switch to CamCard for its more user friendly interface/functionality. -
Need some improvement
The app is good, scan and reads the cards quick and is fairly intuitive. But there are some important needs for improvement - Application crashes far too many times. Scanned +300 cards and the app crashed more than 50 times, luckily with no loss of info - App should recognize and learn from prior scanning. If you scan several cards from the same firm, it would be good that once 1 is corrected, then forth coming are scanned correctly - Scan is ok, but could be improved, specially for international business cards. Some scanning errors are not understandable - Should try to follow a format for the phones, particularly when there are international cards so they are all recorded properly - Maybe a good idea would be for the app to lear. If I don’t use nicknames, and rename it as the 2nd last name, well that could be the result next scan. Hope to see further updates to the app that take care of some improvements that could be made. -
It's good, until one day I noticed that all my contacts wiped out. Now it's zero contact. Not able to restore backup. Can someone help Pls?
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One at a time
It appears you can only MOVE a contact out of the application one card at a time. Cards can be filtered into groups and one can make multiple selections but all it appears one can do with a selection is move it to a different group within the application. No exporting groups to contacts, emails or Excel. There may be a way but I can’t find it. -
Pretty good so far
A bit of searching when trying to focus in on a card. Quite a bit slower here than Evernote. OCR makes some errors, especially when the business card layout is non-standard. The save to Salesforce feature in the premium version seems to work well. -
Great app, but...
Fantastic app, but PLEASE don’t send icebreaker/business card emails by default. In a business where first impressions are everything (e.g. almost any business where you’re exchanging enough business cards to merit a scanner app), an errant email from a random third party app can really get things off on the wrong foot. -
Not that easy to use
I’ve entered over 70 cards. The app misreads many names and addresses. It also adds information that isn’t on the card. One business in Los Alamitos added Los Alamitos Race Track and I don’t have any cards with that. It can’t focus on picture business cards but it reads some ok. -
It’s Okay
This app does not read and scan credit cards very well. They also charged me my regular subscription plus the full subscription price again when I upgraded within 10 minutes.
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Very poor quality and company. Don't buy anything from they. All apps overpriced . After you bought you to them are not interesting any moreafter you bought you to them are not interesting any more, the application will become free and on a subscription. Order number does not suite them. Before answering contact support, already communicated.
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Cannot use app
Requires you to agree to ABBY’s terms regarding agreement to share personal data. If this can be revoked, then why even ask for it at all? Also, allowance of 3rd Party Advertising, which means that there is a sharing of my personal data with other companies. For myself, these terms are unacceptable. While, true, all private data might not be shared, there are no guarantees, that it won’t. As far as, GDPR, I don’t think most people know what that is, (including myself) and ABBY might want to elaborate its meaning to others and, more specifically, how being GDPR compliant provides justification for denying access to this application to the end user. I would very much like to use this application; however, being required to agree to the privacy and advertising terms, again. for myself, is unacceptable. -
Does not sync with Google contacts. One has to manage double contacts. Practically useless due to lack of sync with Google of iPhone contacts.
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Info on app site
I cannot state clear enough information was posted on the App when you looking at it to see if it something you want. I think it is ridiculous to charge that amount for something you can do yourself by taking a photo with the business card and putting it into an album. Some of us are on fixed incomes due to physical limitations, these people have a lot of business cards from their doctors. Perhaps you could offer part of the app for free to hold 30 cards to put all their doctors cards using the app it could save somebody’s life. So if somebody has some kind of a medical problems and and needs emergency they would look in your phone for any information on doctors that you have on the phone . -
spyware... developers say to turn off their spyware features in the paid pro app after enabling them. they force you to agree to these ToC before the app can now start. after the horse has bolted they close the gate. No thanks.
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OCR makes lot of errors, almost faster to enter data manually
I got this app for my iPhone 11 Pro after seeing its excellent review ratings, but sadly my experience has been anything but good. It makes a lot of OCR errors even when the captured image is perfect, and assigns text to the wrong fields more often than is acceptable. Lastly, it takes too much time to register a card in the database (10-15 seconds per card), during which time the screen is frozen and not ready to scan the next card. I’m not sure it is much faster than entering the data manually. Unfortunately, other business card apps that I tried are no better. Looking for an app that can at least do OCR well. -
DO NOT RECOMMEND
I quickly purchased the app for its export to CVS feature. After 10 min of searching for how to easily export, with no clear explanation on the prompt that told me to configure my email, I finally exported the contact list to the desktop site. I was pleased to export to CSV and dismayed to see that I will have to separate Every Single piece of info on any one contact. Instead of having it organized by name, email, company, etc in different columns...all of these things exist in one column. A complete and total waste of time and $30. The recognition software of the cards was also poor. Save yourself time and just enter these yourself the old fashion way. -
Ok but design flaws
The OCR does a decent job but I hate that the send your card to others feature starts enabled. What if I grab my boss's card or some stranger whose card I just want to have for future reference? Both are true in my case, and I am now wondering if my info has been improperly sent to others. Finally, the categories it uses to keep track of the information should be more carefully thought through. Some feel repetitious while others are lacking. I will not be upgrading and since I only get 10 scans I will need to find another program. -
Great concept but HORRIBLE UX!!
How can a paid subscription have no option to contact support?!! The export function is broken, there is no info on how to log into the cloud, help links are broken, and even after I managed to dig up what seemed like a ticket system and spent the time providing thorough explanation of the issues, after submitting the screen went completely blank! No confirmation, no emails, nothing! If this is the paid service, I don’t want to know what the free version does. Get it together! You’re a software company! -
Total violation of your privacy
WARNING: in order to use this app, you have to agree to let them know all of your information and send you ads from third parties. This is totally inappropriate as you have to give up all rights to your data before using the app. These 4 star reviews can be purchased from services designed to fake high ratings for apps. Anyone who cares about their personal data would rate this app 1 stat. Apple should look into this company and it’s shady business model. This is not what I signed up for when I bought a $1000 phone.
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Lost EVERYTHING
Unlike my other card reader that updates and auto-syncs even with updates in device and software, this does not. I have pro and they won’t refund me. -
Give away all your data
Why would anyone agree to use an App that makes you give them all your data, subscribe to ads and sell your info? Crazy. -
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Too many errors.
If you click the check button to complete the business card addition, it is not possible to add it due to a problem that requires a Salesforce login. In particular, there are many errors in character recognition when adding by camera shooting. And the irresponsibility of not answering customer questions about errors is also a problem. You're lying to Apple that it's done troubleshooting! The problem has not been resolved yet.
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Ok but design flaws
The OCR does a decent job but I hate that the send your card to others feature starts enabled. What if I grab my boss's card or some stranger whose card I just want to have for future reference? Both are true in my case, and I am now wondering if my info has been improperly sent to others. Finally, the categories it uses to keep track of the information should be more carefully thought through. Some feel repetitious while others are lacking. I will not be upgrading and since I only get 10 scans I will need to find another program. -
Great concept but HORRIBLE UX!!
How can a paid subscription have no option to contact support?!! The export function is broken, there is no info on how to log into the cloud, help links are broken, and even after I managed to dig up what seemed like a ticket system and spent the time providing thorough explanation of the issues, after submitting the screen went completely blank! No confirmation, no emails, nothing! If this is the paid service, I don’t want to know what the free version does. Get it together! You’re a software company! -
Works but too limited
I had no problem with the apps functionality but you can only load 10 cards without a monthly subscription. Anyone who even considers looking up an app to store business cards already has more than ten cards to store or they wouldn’t need it in the first place. $25 a month is outrageous. One time maybe but I think for $300 a year I can come up with a better solution. -
Works well, but is NOT free
This app works well and does a better job with its recognition software. It does a good job recognizing cards. However, the “free” version is not really free, you are only allowed 10 cards to scan. The price of $60 is ridiculous for this app. Even their method to buy “recognitions” and their sale and promotion prices are ridiculous. -
Struggles with almost every card I scan
It has a real problem recognizing professional designations following a name so it treats the last name as middle and puts the letters from designation in the last name field - have to correct manually. Also adds random words into address block 50% of time.
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Very poor quality and company. Don't buy anything from they. All apps overpriced . After you bought you to them are not interesting any moreafter you bought you to them are not interesting any more, the application will become free and on a subscription. Order number does not suite them. Before answering contact support, already communicated.
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Cannot use app
Requires you to agree to ABBY’s terms regarding agreement to share personal data. If this can be revoked, then why even ask for it at all? Also, allowance of 3rd Party Advertising, which means that there is a sharing of my personal data with other companies. For myself, these terms are unacceptable. While, true, all private data might not be shared, there are no guarantees, that it won’t. As far as, GDPR, I don’t think most people know what that is, (including myself) and ABBY might want to elaborate its meaning to others and, more specifically, how being GDPR compliant provides justification for denying access to this application to the end user. I would very much like to use this application; however, being required to agree to the privacy and advertising terms, again. for myself, is unacceptable. -
Does not sync with Google contacts. One has to manage double contacts. Practically useless due to lack of sync with Google of iPhone contacts.
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Info on app site
I cannot state clear enough information was posted on the App when you looking at it to see if it something you want. I think it is ridiculous to charge that amount for something you can do yourself by taking a photo with the business card and putting it into an album. Some of us are on fixed incomes due to physical limitations, these people have a lot of business cards from their doctors. Perhaps you could offer part of the app for free to hold 30 cards to put all their doctors cards using the app it could save somebody’s life. So if somebody has some kind of a medical problems and and needs emergency they would look in your phone for any information on doctors that you have on the phone . -
spyware... developers say to turn off their spyware features in the paid pro app after enabling them. they force you to agree to these ToC before the app can now start. after the horse has bolted they close the gate. No thanks.
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OCR makes lot of errors, almost faster to enter data manually
I got this app for my iPhone 11 Pro after seeing its excellent review ratings, but sadly my experience has been anything but good. It makes a lot of OCR errors even when the captured image is perfect, and assigns text to the wrong fields more often than is acceptable. Lastly, it takes too much time to register a card in the database (10-15 seconds per card), during which time the screen is frozen and not ready to scan the next card. I’m not sure it is much faster than entering the data manually. Unfortunately, other business card apps that I tried are no better. Looking for an app that can at least do OCR well. -
DO NOT RECOMMEND
I quickly purchased the app for its export to CVS feature. After 10 min of searching for how to easily export, with no clear explanation on the prompt that told me to configure my email, I finally exported the contact list to the desktop site. I was pleased to export to CSV and dismayed to see that I will have to separate Every Single piece of info on any one contact. Instead of having it organized by name, email, company, etc in different columns...all of these things exist in one column. A complete and total waste of time and $30. The recognition software of the cards was also poor. Save yourself time and just enter these yourself the old fashion way. -
Total violation of your privacy
WARNING: in order to use this app, you have to agree to let them know all of your information and send you ads from third parties. This is totally inappropriate as you have to give up all rights to your data before using the app. These 4 star reviews can be purchased from services designed to fake high ratings for apps. Anyone who cares about their personal data would rate this app 1 stat. Apple should look into this company and it’s shady business model. This is not what I signed up for when I bought a $1000 phone. -
Why a subscription??
I downloaded this and scanned a few cards. For the most part it works pretty good, it didn’t get one of the addresses right but I was able it easily edit that. My only issue is with all these great apps that want to get in on the subscription kick. Why?? I don’t want to pay monthly or annually...if you make this a small one time fee this would be an awesome app, but $7.99 per month is insane. Without subscribing you can only store up to 10 cards. If I only had 10 cards to store I wouldn’t need this app. Reconsider your subscription fee!! -
Too many errors.
If you click the check button to complete the business card addition, it is not possible to add it due to a problem that requires a Salesforce login. In particular, there are many errors in character recognition when adding by camera shooting. And the irresponsibility of not answering customer questions about errors is also a problem. You're lying to Apple that it's done troubleshooting! The problem has not been resolved yet.
- Do you conduct business abroad? Easily manage your international contacts with a business card scanner that recognizes 25 different languages
- Easily share your contacts with others, either by email, text, or Excel spreadsheet
- The advanced scanning software alerts you to any possible errors in the scanned copy, so you can make sure it's correct
Reviewed by Olivia Cordell on May 11, 2018
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