ABBYY Business Card Reader

ABBYY Business Card Reader

ABBYY Business Card Reader for Windows automatically captures text from business cards and converts it into data for direct export to your contact database. Eliminating the need for manual data entry, it saves time and enables you to act on the information in business cards faster than ever. And there’s no need to purchase new hardware, since the application works with virtually any scanning device.

Eliminate Manual Data Entry

The superior accuracy of Business Card Reader enables you to digitize business cards in a few simple steps.

Save Time for More Important Business

Process cards fast with the ability to scan and convert up to 10 business cards at a time with a flatbed scanner.

Put Your New Contacts Within Easy Reach

Export contact information directly to Microsoft^® Outlook^® and Salesforce^®.

Automated Capture of Contact Information

Business Card Reader automatically scans and “reads” paper business cards and sends the contact data to an external database – or saves it to an electronic format of your choice. Based on ABBYY’s intelligent data capture technology, it accurately identifies information according to its type (First Name, Last Name, Phone Numbers, Address, etc.) and sends it to the corresponding fields in a database.

Multiple Business Card Scanning

The application allows you to scan and read up to 10 business cards simultaneously in a session when working with flatbed scanners. All contacts will be separated from each other and allocated to the corresponding fields of the database.

Flexible Export and Sharing Options

ABBYY Business Card Reader 2.0 offers various options for exporting contact data to your preferred contact management system:

• Direct export to Microsoft^® Outlook^®, to an already existing contacts folder or a new one, created from within the application
• Direct export to Salesforce^® 
• Saving data to CSV format for export to Microsoft Excel^® or any other contact management system
• Saving contacts as vCard files for easy sharing with Google^® contacts and Google Calendar™, Apple^® iPad^®and Mac^®.

Comprehensive Language Support

ABBYY BCR technology reads business cards in 25 popular languages which include both European and some Asian languages. In addition, it can easily process data from multilingual business cards.

Duplicate Contacts Detection

To make sure that your contacts are always well-tended ABBYY Business Card Reader will automatically checks new data against the existing information in the database when exporting contacts to Microsoft Outlook^® or Salesforce^®. If a similar contact is already stored in the database, the software automatically alerts you and provides the options of replacing the old contact with the new one, updating it or keeping them both.

Quick Scan Function

You can scan business cards while previously scanned cards are still being recognized, simply by clicking the “Scan Next” button and letting the program work for you.

Dual Side Scanning Support

You can scan both sides of a business card in one operation by using a scanner with dual-side mode. The second side of a business card will be saved as a picture (without recognition) with all the important contact information captured and allocated.

Compatibility with Virtually Any Scanner

ABBYY Business Card Reader works with any TWAIN or WIA compatible scanner, multifunction peripheral (MFP) or any business card scanner. The product can also process card images captured by digital cameras or mobile devices.