Business Card Reader Utility for BlackBerry

By on Jan 1, 2010 at 1:05 pm

Want a simple way to get contact information off business cards to your BlackBerry? SHAPE Services released a new application to do just the thing. Business Card Reader is a scanning utility that simply lets you scan a business card and by making use of ABBYY’s text recognition technology allows for the extracted information to be added directly to your address book filling in all the appropriate fields.

Business Card Reader is available now for $9.95 but SHAPE Services does offer up a 7 day trial for everyone to check out before making a final purchasing choice. Supported devices include BlackBerry Tour, Curve 8900, Storm, Storm 2, Bold 9700 as they all have a higher resolution camera with auto focus to capture the data. Business Card Reader also supports different languages such as English, French, Italian, German and finally, Spanish.

[CrackBerry]

Share on Tumblr

Tags: • • •

Filed: BlackBerry • Business • Utilities
  • Paul

    This product doesn't seem to work very well – The forums don't seem to find it working. I have a Storm 9530, and it freezes my Storm solid… requiring reboot – reproducible. Too bad – seems like a great idea if it worked well.

  • afours

    not supports the chinese?

  • JLS

    It works great on the Tour!

  • http://www.rightwinggorilla.com Scott

    I have a Tour and it doesnt work at all. Appears to work,, but acting doesn't get the job don at all.. bogus app.

  • http://www.shapeservices.com Elena

    A new version with huge improvements is already available (version 1.1) Give it a try!

  • bikes hybrid

    Hey, I want to say thanks for an exciting site about a subject I have had an interest in for a long time now. I have been looking in and reading the comments avidly so just wanted to express my thanks for administering me with some very good reading material. I look forward to more, and taking a more active part in the discussions here, whilst picking up some expertise too!!

  • Michael

    I bought business card reader for blackberry 9700 but I am very disappointed. The most of the times I get the error that the card is not recognized and in case the card is recognized there is no option to add the contacts in my contacts. There are 2 options, to merge and to close. Can any body help on this problem ?