When networking and doing business we are actively exchanging business cards. In order to stay organized with all the contacts, many people are using a business card reader app (or business card scanner).One of the reasons for that is just to eliminate those old-school rolodex in the best case scenario or those card piles in the worse. Another reason for using the scanner is to avoid manual entry to your CRM or e-mail address book. All these features save you the most valuable resource – time! You get to focus on your business vs stressing over finding your contacts.
Let’s take a closer look at the business card scanner software available:
FullContact |
ABBYY BCR | CamCard | ||
Language Support |
English only |
25 | 17 |
27 |
Sync with call email or txt |
YES |
YES | YES |
YES |
Switch between devices (iOS, Android, web) |
YES |
YES | YES |
YES |
Store scans |
YES |
YES | YES |
YES |
Add notes |
YES |
YES | YES |
YES |
Groups of contacts |
NO |
YES | YES |
YES |
Set ToDos |
NO |
NO | NO |
YES |
Scan and share |
NO |
NO | NO |
YES |
E-cards (digital business card) |
NO |
YES | YES |
YES |
E-card design |
NO |
YES | NO |
YES |
Discover nearby |
YES |
NO | NO |
YES |
Event networking |
NO |
NO | NO |
YES |
Price |
$8.33 / mo 10 free scans/mo |
$7.99 / mo
15 free scans |
$4.49 / mo |
Free/ mo unlimited scans |
Current BCR (business card reader) apps are all about being multifunctional. All of them are offering additional features on top of actual scanning of the card and storing of the data. You just have to make a decision on what’s more important for you.
Fullcontact allows you to safely synchronize your contacts with SalesForce or other platforms via Zapier, as well as with up to 5 accounts (Google, iCloud, or Office 365 / Exchange). A change on one device will be reflected on all your other address books.
ABBYY BCR performs a scan in the the fastest and most reliable way by using the latest OCR technology. Synchronization with CRM and e-mail accounts is also available.
Camcard is trying to keep up and even get ahead of the game with a tool that will alert you when the contact information of someone in your address book have changed. On top of that you are encouraged to enrich your profile to be able to share more info with the others.
100AM, powered by ABBYY Cloud OCR SDK Technology, is taking the ability to exchange digital business cards to the next level: Print2Digital is a cool feature, allowing you to scan someone’s paper business card and immediately e-mail your contacts to them. That is just one example of an array of useful tools for networking that 100AM developed.
Bottom line is – there are several worthy solutions available on the market, yet most of the versions are paid. 100AM (iOS and Android) offers ABBYY OCR technology with the UNLIMITED business card scanner and numerous networking features at no cost to anyone who joins event networking.