ABBYY Business Card Reader Lite for Android

ABBYY Business Card Reader allows users to transfer contact information from business cards directly to the mobile address book by using the smartphone camera with autofocus and ABBYY's optical character recognition (OCR) technology.

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 character recognition (OCR) technology for mobile devices, which was previously introduced to the market with ABBYY Mobile OCR Engine. This innovative OCR technology accurately "reads" printed text on images and photos captured with a digital camera and converts it into text which can be edited and saved. ABBYY Mobile OCR technology delivers the appropriate balance between powerful recognition capabilities and the fast performance required for mobile applications. The high accuracy of ABBYY OCR technology means that users won't spend their time on editing and correcting contact data extracted from business cards.

Recognition of business cards in 20 languages
ABBYY Business Card Reader is a multilingual application which will help you to expand your contact network beyond country borders. It reads business cards in 20 languages including: Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Indonesian, Italian, Korean, Norwegian (both Bokmal and Nynorsk), Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, and Ukrainian.

Automatic detection of different contact information on business cards
ABBYY Business Card Reader 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. These data types can be saved automatically to the corresponding fields of a mobile address book without the need for further reorganization of the obtained data.

Easy-to-use intuitive interface
ABBYY Business Card Reader's interface makes it easy to start using the application right away. Helpful tool tips are included to guide users to get the best results.



To ensure the proper conditions for photographing business cards with a digital camera, the application automatically monitors the camera lens and includes controls for camera flash within the application.

The interface is suitable for touch screen and keypad based smartphones.

No additional equipment required and on-device recognition. All you need is a smartphone with an auto focus camera!
ABBYY Business Card Reader allows you to add new contacts into your smartphone any time, anywhere. No additional equipment or software is required. Whether it is a business meeting, a conference, business trip, you can always take a picture of a business card with the built-in camera and let the program do the rest. The new contact will be added immediately.

The free lite version of ABBYY Business Card Reader 1.0 for Android allows users to preview recognition results on the device’s display and save the full name and first detected phone number to the address book. The lite version also supports the look-up of relevant information about the contact in Facebook.

The free lite version of ABBYY Business Card Reader demonstrates product capabilities while imposing some functionality limitations:

- All data in the business card will be recognized but you will be able to save only contact's full name and first detected phone number
- The search across the social networks will be limited to Facebook