Are
the visiting/business cards dead? Today these cards have been
replaced by the websites. Every small and big enterprise has its
portal and most of the people use these to get in touch with the
company executives. Smartphones, social networks and various
marketing strategies are deployed so that a firm can attract more
customers.
Nowadays,
all the contacts are managed digitally. A recently conducted market
survey reported that orders of business cards have witnessed 13%
downfall compared to the previous year. All the national and
international firms are engaged in Mobile application development
and they offer their clients with a personalized shopping experience.
There are several apps which assist in digitalising all the paper
cards. The advantage of this conversion is that the person would
create a consolidated database which can be used anywhere.
Here's
a list of apps that would come in handy while converting stack of
business cards into digital ones:
Bump
(iOS & Android)– With this app, a person can instantly
share contact information just by tapping the smartphone against
another Bump-enabled cellphone. It is a cross-platform app and runs
smoothly on all the operating system versions. Moreover, users can
also connect with these contacts via Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.
CamCard
(iOS & Android)– It is highly recommended Mobile apps
for this process. The highlight of this app is IntSig Information
which handles the batch scanning of business cards. Just photograph
the whole series of cards with the smartphone and then it can be
finalised later. Well, other apps like these usually have to
recognise each image which makes the process lengthy.
CardCloud
(iOS & Android)– This app lets users share an infinite
stack of digital business cards wirelessly between the iPhones and
Android-based smartphones. Moreover, a person can also share the
contact information with people who have a different smartphone.
CardCloud offers an emailing service through which users can share
information.
CardMunch
(iOS)– Designed & developed by LinkedIn, CardMunch allows
the users to pull physical business cards into their LinkedIn and
contact database. The cards scanned via CardMunch are manually
transcribed by the humans for the improved accuracy. Soon this app's
Android and BlackBerry versions would be launched in the market.
ScanBizCards
(iOS, Android & Windows Phone)– The two main highlights of
this app is its ability to export contacts into Salesforce.com
account & full support for the side-by-side editing of the
imported data. Apart from that, you can also export the date to Excel
& can also integrate it with Skype.
WorldCard
Mobile (iOS, Android, Windows Mobile)– This app uses the
optical recognition on your smartphone to quickly scan & merge
the contacts into the database. Users say that this app has one of
the most accurate recognition engines available. Along with that,
this app also integrates iCloud, Dropbox & supports 16 languages.
Conclusion
In
this blog, you will read about six apps that will assist you in
converting business cards into digital database.
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