It's the only app that consistently found and linked social media accounts, captured blurry and unusual fonts, and identified words that the others just missed. The ability to organize, tag, and group contactsįinally, we looked for apps that have special features such as multi-card capture, design suites, and company contact management capabilities.īizConnect produces the closest I found to perfect scan accuracy. Integration and sharing options (e.g., with email and CRM platforms) (No app, however, is 100% accurate, even when employing human transcribers.)

Good scanners can usually accurately capture most of a card's details, no matter how a business card is designed. Unusual fonts, background colors, and the arrangement of the info on a card all affect how the app's OCR handles the data. If all goes well, the contact info matches the business card.īut scanning accuracy varies across apps, and that, in part, is what separates the good from the meh. First, it scans the card's structure, then divides that into blocks of text and images, dropping the text and numbers into their respective contact fields within the app. This decades-old technology, simply put, converts images to text.

If you could look under the hood of a business card scanner app, you'd find OCR (optical character recognition) software. For more details on our process, read the full rundown of how we select apps to feature on the Zapier blog. We're never paid for placement in our articles from any app or for links to any site-we value the trust readers put in us to offer authentic evaluations of the categories and apps we review. We spend dozens of hours researching and testing apps, using each app as it's intended to be used and evaluating it against the criteria we set for the category. All of our best apps roundups are written by humans who've spent much of their careers using, testing, and writing about software.

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