The 10 Best Business Card Scanner Apps

• It can identify the edges of a business card and crop out unwanted backgrounds • It highlights unrecognized data • It automatically adds country codes • It fixes typos All of this and it will store email addresses, names, numbers and more. Moreover, you’ll be able to share the data via email, vCard (VCF file), or JPEG files.

CamCard is a top-rated business card scanner for a few reasons. Naturally, it uses OCR tech to read, process and store contact data. However, beyond that, it allows you to add notes and reminders to the cards it saves. What’s more, there’s a batch scanning feature that allows you to save contact info from multiple cards at once. Finally, the secretary scan mode allows you to invite personal secretaries to add contact details to your account.

Scanning business cards is part of the Zoho Workplace package. In terms of capabilities, Zoho's Card Scanner app reads and stores vital contact info from cards and, once processed, allows you to edit at will. However, where this business card scanner shines is with its management functions. For example, using the contact manager program, you can import phone numbers straight to your phone book as well as share via cloud services such as Google Drive and vCard. What’s more, this app has productivity tools, an email facility and an invoicing feature.

This app isn’t just a mobile business card scanner. Microsoft Office Lens can scan many different types of documents. However, it does have a business card mode which allows you to extract names, numbers, email address and more. What we love about it, however, is its flexibility. By combining the business card function with its ability to read other documents, you can create comprehensive contact lists that can be stored and shared with ease.

If you’re in need of a business card scanner that stores important data within three seconds and allows you to share it via email and social networks, CardHQ is great. Although it doesn’t feature as many bells and whistles as its peers, this app does everything you need it to, which makes it great for casual users.

Unlike its peers, this app doesn’t rely on OCR tech. Instead, it takes a picture of each business card and sends it to a real person. This person is, in essence, your virtual secretary. They type up the information and enter it into your online contact list. All being well, this should take no more than 30 seconds and it means every piece of information is not only entered but given a human touch. In other words, any ambiguities aren’t ignored, they’re addressed and overcome.

As a business card scanner app, Wantedly People is simple but effective. It only pulls email addresses, names and phone numbers from a card. Because you can connect with others linked to the app and share data via encrypted services, it’s a fantastic networking tool. For us, the main selling point is the batch-scanning function. Lay out 10 cards, move your mobile across them and voilà!

Evernote can read, process and save digital data from a variety of mediums. Business cards have been added to the mix over the years, which means you can capture contact data using your mobile’s camera. What’s impressive about this product is that it can extract data from LinkedIn and match it to your saved Android or iPhone contacts so you have someone’s complete business profile.

Like all the best business scanner app offerings, ScanBizCards allows you to pull data from cards and store it to your device. That’s great if you’re an individual. However, what this app does best is add contact details to customer relationship management (CRM) programs. This allows you to manage interactions, improve your customer service and drive up sales.

Sansan can read and store business card data and then back it up to your iOS or Android just like you would with your phone contacts. However, its goals are loftier than that. Once the information has been processed, it’s sent to a cloud server and added to an online database, which is open to all Sansan users. The aim is to phase out physical cards and encourage users to share virtual business cards and contacts.