Best business card scanner for WP7?

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#119008 16-May-2013 23:28

I have over 3,000 business cards that I havent been bothered to enter into my Gmail address book - any good business card scanners that snap a pic and then sort out all the contact details?

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Jay

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Snowflake

#820895 17-May-2013 00:57

how about linking to everyone in LinkedIn and then configuring the phone to show linkedin contacts in People hub?

(sorry, never used a business card scan app on my WP7)

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adslgeek

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#821492 18-May-2013 10:37

I have to get a blog post together, as I need to remember and record how exactly I did it - but last time I took

- Facebook
- Plaxo
- Various free form spreadsheets of contact details
- LinkedIn
- Xobni

And some other sources I cant remember and then did this uber linking of all the different contact places I had, back into Gmail and then worked through Picasa to face tag and upload to Gmail contacts, all those who I had pics for, and also there was a facebook profile pic downloading app, which then uses those images.

As I work in Gmail, I have the Xobni / Smartr plugin, so then you can link to other social media as you are are emailing them, and it searches / finds their profiles online.

The end result was that I have Gmail contacts which can be de-duped quite smartly, and most with mugshots so then I have the contact details and a profile pic of most people you have worked with etc.

But for the moment, I was just not wanting to have to type up 3000+ business cards in one go!

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J

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#821496 18-May-2013 10:43

Will send you a PM. It may be an interesting test case for us:

http://xtracta.com/

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#821525 18-May-2013 11:08

CamCard.

http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/camcard-business-card-reader/3c3052ac-115d-e011-854c-00237de2db9e

Do whatever you want to do man.

adslgeek

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#821737 18-May-2013 20:20

Zeon: Will send you a PM. It may be an interesting test case for us:

http://xtracta.com/

Hey that looks awesome - I have some gmail / email folders also with heaps of contact details in a messy format (eg signature blocks), is it able to read that in?

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J

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#821746 18-May-2013 20:52

Good job for a student

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#822739 20-May-2013 23:52

adslgeek:
Zeon: Will send you a PM. It may be an interesting test case for us:

http://xtracta.com/

Hey that looks awesome - I have some gmail / email folders also with heaps of contact details in a messy format (eg signature blocks), is it able to read that in?

Cheers,

J

Yea I see no reason why not. Having seen particular formats before makes a big help in our accuracy but we should be able to find global trends in your sigs that would allow extraction.

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