In my evaluation, I'd give it a B+ compared to the intelligent transcription of CardMunch - keeping in mind that CardMunch also makes mistakes on some cards. How good is the OCR function? Well, you can test it yourself with the app's lite version (allowing three scans the first week, and one scan per week after that). Additional features include the ability to copy an email signature and parse it into a contact record, which is a lot more useful than I thought it would be.īy subscribing, you are agreeing to Engadget's Terms and Privacy Policy. You can scan your cards neatly without any network connection, and all the OCR processing is handled locally on the phone. The flagship iPhone app is the US$6.99 WorldCard Mobile, and it picks up nicely where CardMunch leaves off. That's where the Penpower family of contact management apps comes into play. Unfortunately, CardMunch's cloud dependency means that sometimes it can get backed up, and when you're sitting on an airplane with a stack of post-conference business cards to go through, it's quite likely useless. My default tool for business card scanning has been CardMunch, which has a number of advantages: fast, ties in easily to parent company LinkedIn, accurate (using actual humans to do the card transcription) and free. Getting those inky bits converted to actual bits is easy enough with your iPhone and the right app. Of course, in almost all cases it's not the physical object we care about, but rather the data printed on the card. The paper business card may go away someday if innovative apps like Bump and Evernote Hello take over, but for now we're still dealing with these little chunks of cardboard.
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