Windows Phone App Review: ScanBizCards

ScanBizCards for Windows Phone

Deal with a lot of business organisation cards from associates, customers, and other contacts? Looking for an easy manner to import all that information on to your Windows Phone? If and then, take a look at ScanBizCards. Not only volition ScanBizCards let you lot browse business organization cards but you also have the ability for deject backup and syncing your cards across multiple platforms (support for iOS, Android and a desktop client).

With support for twenty two languages and the power to import information into your People's Hub, ScanBizCards definitely sounds promising.

The Main Menu on ScanBizCards offers you lot options to open up the photographic camera and photograph the business organisation menu, open your photo anthology, explore previously photographed cards, manage your cards with Websync and tap into the Help screens.

ScanBizCards Main Menu and Settings

At the bottom of the Principal Carte is a button command to access ScanBizCards settings. Settings comprehend linguistic communication pick, personalization features (color of the leather background), enable/disable features such as autosync, haptic feedback, etc., and the selection to delete all cards and folders.

ScanBizCards WebSync

You lot will need to sign upwardly and personalize your Websync account to be able to back upwards your cards to the cloud. Information technology's gratuitous, painless and unavailable with the trial version. Websync volition allow you lot to admission your cards and autosync them betwixt your Windows Phone, a desktop application, equally well as iPhones and Android devices. The desktop interface will permit yous to scan and upload cards from a flatbed scanner.

To scan a card, you merely tap the photographic camera tile on the ScanBizCards' Master Carte and your camera will be activated. Frame your business carte du jour in the rectangular frame, tap the screen to have the picture and have information technology to save it.

ScanBizCards conversion screen

From there y'all are taken to what I would call the processing screens. Here you tin add gratis form notes to the motion picture (due east.g. where y'all met the person) as well every bit scan the card to import into your contacts. Three buttons remainder at the bottom of the card screen to let you scan the card, scan later, and rotate the image. You can likewise manually enter the data by pulling upwards the three-dot card.

When you lot scan the business bill of fare, your contact fields are automatically populated. Hither's whereScanBizCards seems to hit a brick wall. Converting an epitome to text is a claiming for whatsoever scanning app and ScanBizCards is no exception. I had fields misspelled, misplaced and text completely missed in the conversion. Luckily, you will be prompted to a preview of the information before creating a new contact where you can edit things. Once you are satisfied with the information you have iv button controls to save the information to contacts, telephone call the contact, e-mail the contact or transport out an LinkedIn invite.

Additionally, from the iii-dot menu you can add a field, remove a field, alter a field blazon, rescan the card, re-download a missing paradigm, and save the menu image to your telephone.

ScanBizCards has a lot of features and is a dainty looking Windows Phone app. I like the cloud sync but would accept liked to have seen the option to back everything upward on Skydrive. I realize that Websync allows for cross platform connections simply some may not have that demand and prefer to stick with i cloud for all their fill-in/storage needs.

While ScanBizCards is feature rich and can span multiple platforms, the app is simply as expert every bit its ability to process the cards. With this respect, there is nonetheless some of work to be done. In that location were just too many conversion errors that prevented this app from shining.

Go the paradigm processing downwardly a lilliputian improve and ScanBizCards is well worth the $6.99 price tag. Until then I volition recommend downloading the trial version to give ScanBizCards a try before hand.

You tin can find ScanBizCards here at the Windows Telephone Marketplace.

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