Data Capture Software transfers business card info to smartphone.May 26, 2009 -
Designed for NokiaŽ smartphones running on SymbianŽ S60, Business Card Reader 2.0 transfers contact information from business cards directly to mobile phone's address book by using smartphone camera and text recognition technology. To add new contacts, user starts program on device and takes picture of business card. Program reads picture, automatically extracts contact data, and enters information into appropriate fields of mobile address book.
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Original Press release
ABBYY USA
47221 Fremont Boulevard
Fremont, CA, 94538
USA
ABBYY Announces Business Card Reader Application for Nokia Smartphones
Moscow, Russia (May 5, 2009) - ABBYY, a leading provider of document recognition, data capture and linguistic software, today announced the worldwide availability of Business Card Reader 2.0 for NokiaŽ smartphones running on SymbianŽ S60. The new application transfers contact information from business cards directly to the mobile phone`s address book by using the smartphone camera and ABBYY`s text recognition technology. It helps people save the time and effort typically spent on typing in names, phone numbers, e-mails and other key information. To add new contacts, users simply start the program on their device and take a picture of a business card. The program reads this picture, automatically extracts contact data and enters the information into the appropriate fields of the mobile address book.
"This simple yet efficient application promises to be of great use and value to business professionals and anyone who communicates with many people in work and personal life", said Katya Solntseva, director of mobile products department at ABBYY. "What makes the application truly stand out is the accuracy and intelligence it delivers when extracting contact information from images of business cards. It allows users to get all information from business cards quickly saved in their phone book, rather than just the names and phone numbers people usually type in manually."
ABBYY Business Card Reader 2.0 intelligently locates different types of contact information which can be found on a business card, such as First Name, Last Name, Company, Title, Telephone Numbers, Fax, E-mail, Web site and more. All these data types can be saved automatically to the corresponding fields of a phone book without the need for further reorganization of the obtained data. At the same time, it provides additional options allowing users to edit, change or add new fields. Users can also add a photograph of a given contact person.
ABBYY Business Card Reader 2.0 recognizes business cards in 16 languages including English, German, French, Italian, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Indonesian, Norwegian (both Bokmal and Nynorsk), Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Ukrainian.
The product has an easy-to-use, intuitive interface suitable for touch screen and keypad based smartphones. Helpful tool tips are also included to guide users to get the best results. To ensure the proper conditions for photographing business cards with a digital camera, ABBYY Business Card Reader automatically monitors the camera lens and includes controls for camera flash within the application.
Underlining the new application is ABBYY`s award-winning optical character recognition (OCR) technology for mobile devices, which was previously introduced to the market with ABBYY Mobile OCR Engine 3.0.
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