Top 3 scan applications

What would be networking without business cards?

As we try to digitize everything that can be, business cards are still “worn”. The truth is that the exchange of business cards still remains the most elegant form to give someone your contact details in a corporate context.

However, what happens after the event with the pile of business cards received? They usually become unfortunate in the office, through the portfolio or in the car’s torpedo. It types all those telephone numbers in the agenda is a rather boring and useless job, so we can ignore the opportunities that could have captured.

The solution is represented by the applications for scanning business cards. They recognize the inscribed text, then save and organize contacts in your agenda (and in CRM, if you have something). All in a few seconds. So these applications are useful because:

• Save time. The exchange of business cards becomes almost instantaneously. Less time to collect information means more time to relate to your face.
• Economist space On the desk/ in the drawers/ in the wallet. The business card place is not on your desk, but on the address book.
• Expand the contacts of your business every step. The goal is not to collect as many business cards as possible, the goal is to increase your contact base. Why not update your database in real time, with a simple scan?
• Save more than the simple name and telephone number. The application extracts all available information: the name, the e-mail address, the company name, etc.
• The scanned contacts enter directly in CRM (Who has no CRM, to do it!)
• You can filter Contacts on the basis of categories such as the industry, the department or the position occupied in the company. This is useful when you don’t look for one person in particular, but a specific category of people.
• Follow-up never rapid. Flights you have saved contacts, the more you will be able to contact the potential collaborator previously. The greater the prompt, the greater the possibility of concluding a contract. If you leave too long to move from the meeting in front, the chances of collaboration decrease.
• While numerous applications are strictly specialized on the scan of business cards, there are bigger ones, which allow you Extract the text and from the documentsposter etc.

The first 3 scan applications visit books:

1. Scandbizcard

Basic characteristics:

-The free version

-Variant paid: $ 100 /year for the team subscription (50 users)

-Android/ iOS

-Plication of data

-CRM Integration

Also, as an element that distinguishes it from other similar applications and a service From human transcription. That is, they have a team that manually transcribes the data. All documents The scan applications use OCR (optical characters recognition), but accuracy is very high for English texts. In this situation, the transcription made by a person can be more accurate. Scandbizcards offers 100 transcription credits per year.

2. Covve

Basic characteristics:

-The free version

-Variant paid: $ 7.5 /month

-Android/ iOS

-CRM Integration

-PO set of monthly/ quarterly/ annual reminder set

-Pot organizes contacts by categories

-You can filter the list of contacts for criteria

What has the option paid by Covve is also that in addition to what extracts from the business card, the application will continue to collect data from the web. For example, it can look for associated social media links (Facebook, Likedin), an image of the profile to help you with visual memory, a possible change of work or important news on the company to which it belongs. In this way, it provides you with contextual information to help you stay in touch with the people you met.

3. Desired people

Basic characteristics:

-S is free

-Android/ iOS

-The multiple scan offspring

-Se the encryption of data via SSL

You can scan and wholesale, not just the details! If you are the type of person who participates in many events and you have come to collect a huge pile of business cards, this application is suitable for you. It allows you to scan more business cards simultaneously. Massimo 10, to maintain the accuracy of the extracted text. Another advantage, also a surprising one for a completely free application, is the encryption of data via SSL. SSL (Safe Series levels) is a security protocol in which the user and server data are encrypted and decrypted, so that an attacker cannot enter the connection to steal the data.

The disadvantage of this application is that he does not save contacts directly on the agenda, he saves everything in the application.

Alternatives to the Business Cards Scan

If you do not want to use a dedicated application, you can use other optical recovery systems, scan the documents with the text in general. The disadvantage is that the extracted text does not automatically reach the agenda or CRM, you will have to copy it manually (it is better to type everything manually from the first).

If you already have CRM, you can include the business card scan service. Hubspot, Zoho, Insightly, Nutshell and Nocm also offer this service. For example, we use CRM Hubspot, then we scan the business cards with Hubspot. In this way we assure ourselves that our base of contacts is updated.

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