Abbyy Business Card Reader v2.0.0.25 S60v3
Your Contacts Captured Now!
ABBYY Business Card Reader 2.0 is a handy application forNokia® smartphones running on Symbian® S60 which allows users totransfer contact information from business cards directly to the Nokiaaddress book by using the smartphone camera and ABBYY’s textrecognition technology.
It helps people save time and efforttypically spent on typing in names, phone numbers, e-mails and otherkey information. To add new contacts, users need to simply start theapplication on their device and take a picture of a business card. Theprogram will scan and “read” this picture, automatically extractcontact data from it and enter the data into appropriate fields of themobile address book.
The application promises to be of great use and value to businessprofessionals and anyone who communicates with many people in work andpersonal life.
Key Features and Benefits
Fast and easy way to add new contacts
All contact information from a business card can be captured in three simple steps:
1. Take a picture of the business card
2. Review the extracted information
3. Save new contact in mobile address book
High quality and accuracy of text recognition
The application uses ABBYY’s award-winning optical characterrecognition (OCR) technology for mobile devices, which was previouslyintroduced to the market with ABBYY Mobile OCR Engine 3.0. Thisinnovative OCR technology accurately “reads” printed text on images andphotos captured with a digital camera and converts it into text whichcan be edited and saved. ABBYY Mobile OCR technology delivers theappropriate balance between powerful recognition capabilities and thefast performance required for mobile applications. The high accuracy ofABBYY OCR technology means that users won’t spend their time on editingand correcting contact data extracted from business cards.
Automatic detection of different contact information on business cards
ABBYY Business Card Reader 2.0 intelligently locates different types ofcontact information which can be found on a business card, such asFirst Name, Last Name, Company, Title, Telephone Numbers, Fax, E-mail,Web site and more. These data types can be saved automatically to thecorresponding fields of a Nokia address book without the need forfurther reorganization of the obtained data.
Ability to add a photo to new contact without leaving the application
When adding a new contact, ABBYY Business Card Reader 2.0 enables youto add a photograph of a given contact person without leaving theapplication. Having a picture in your phone book will help facilitatefuture communications.
Easy-to-use intuitive interface
ABBYY Business Card Reader’s interface makes it easy to start using theapplication right away. Helpful tool tips are included to guide usersto get the best results.
To ensure the proper conditions for photographing business cards with adigital camera, the application automatically monitors the camera lensand includes controls for camera flash within the application.
The interface is suitable for touch screen and keypad based smartphones.
No additional equipment required. All you need is a Nokia smartphone with an auto focus camera!
ABBYY Business Card Reader 2.0 allows you to add new contacts into yoursmartphone any time, anywhere. No additional equipment or software isrequired. Whether it is a business meeting, a conference, businesstrip, you can always take a picture of a business card with thebuilt-in camera and let the program do the rest. The new contact willbe added immediately.
Recognition of business cards in 16 languages
ABBYY Business Card Reader 2.0 is a multilingual application which willhelp you to expand your contact network beyond country borders. Itreads business cards in 16 languages including: Danish, Dutch, English,Finnish, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Norwegian (both Bokmaland Nynorsk), Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian, Spanish,Swedish, Turkish, and Ukrainian.
What’s New
Improved camera and display control
Camera flash control – It is possible to turn off camera flash withinthe application. In poor lighting conditions camera flash may workautomatically and overexpose some part of a business card. In such casea user can turn off the flash (via the application menu) and thereforeto improve the quality of photo of a business card and the recognitionresults (upon application shutdown, this option will not be saved).
Screen lighting control – The application automatically delays turningoff the screen lighting if necessary, to give users enough time tofocus the camera on a business card and take a picture.
Tool tips to guide users through application steps
Helpful tool tips are included in the program to guide users to get thebest results. They will assist you when photographing business cards,working with camera flash, editing captured contact information, andsetting up recognition languages.
Improved data fields management
ABBYY Business Card Reader 2.0 delivers an enhanced set of options tomanage and edit captured contacts before saving them in the mobilephone book. It allows users to change the type of a given data field(e.g. Name, Title, Address, etc.), add new data fields, and removeduplex fields highlighted with an exclamation mark.
New recognition languages
* Danish
* Dutch
* Finnish
* Norwegian (both Bokmal and Nynorsk)
* Portuguese (Brazilian)
* Swedish
* Turkish
New interface language
German
Improved synchronization with Microsoft Outlook
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