No more stacks of cards! Scans in English, Can store front and back
Short version: Love this app. Use it daily. Just go ahead Download this one now, save time. (I tried several others, kept this one, upgraded to pro.)
Long version:
How I use it: I use this app to quickly photograph the business cards I receive at trade shows, client meetings, and other business venues. Right there. In my car, at the hotel, right after the trade show, just takes a minute...
Transcribing: If the lighting is even and I have a steady hand, the data is transcribed perfectly. Otherwise, some fonts or font sizes give the app difficulty.
Overall Review: For my needs, (and for the low price of this pro version) it is well within my expectations and worth downloading and using now.
Option I like: For cards that are dual-sided, I can also take a photo of the back. (It does not transcribe the back).
Details-How I use it: After the initial pass, I may go back and check the name, phone number, and email address for errors. When you tap on the data it zooms to the spot on the card making it easy to find and fix the problem.
Dual Language: It is possible to add additional fields like a name in an alternate language. This data is stored data but is not visible unless you enter edit mode.
Cool: When you rotate your phone sideways to landscape it automatically provides a full screen view of the card. That is useful.
Things that Could be better:
1) when in portrait mode, the card is displayed on the upper half of the screen, and I can zoom in on the card. It only on that little portion of the screen. In Landscape, the card is full screen, but I cant zoom.
2) Would like to auto sort by company.
3) When entering a large stack of cards all at once, wish there was a "continuous" mode to shoot a lot of cards at once. Currently you must tap "scan new card" for every card.
4) Wish it stored most recent searches.
Overall I am super duper happy with this app. I gave it 5 stars and then dropped one star for:
a) not scanning the back (it does *store* the photo which is awesome!)
b) not displaying the dual language info I entered manually
c) not being able to zoom when in landscape mode
d) not storing my last search
And If you are still reading... I use this app everyday. I gave it 4 stars but really thats a 4.9. I absolutely love the functionality. This app lets me connect easily through a fast search that lets me find cards based on a key word, or an event, or a time...
Previously I subscribed to a company that would "perfectly" transcribe my cards front and back and load them into SalesForce. All for a fee. Had to use their proprietary scanner when I got back to the office. That was high end, perfect, detailed, and built for volume. The whole office used it and it linked all of our data so we could see who met with whom. It even used the cloud to update titles and other info real time. Nice. *was* worth it then.
But that was a *large* monthly expense. And it took 24 hours for the data to be avaialable..
This app? The data is mine and on my phone in seconds, there is a tiny one-time fee, and I dont have to trudge back to the office for bulk scan day.
Just get the app. Youll like it.
AlohaDylan about
ScanBizCards Business Card Reader, v6.07