Business Card Reader: Job Search Productivity App for iPhone

Contacts are the lifeblood of networking for job search. The business card is the venerable medium for exchanging contact information often gets misplaced or dog-eared.  The answer would seem to be entering the data into your smartphone’s address book, but this is not always convenient when you’re on the run or have a large number of cards to enter.  If your smartphone is the iPhone, there’s a solution that quickly solves the problem.  It’s the Business Card Reader application.  This app turns a tedious task into a simple, automated process.  

Business Card Reader has an easy to use interface supports a simple and effective data capture process.  You take a photo of the business card, the app “scans” the image and converts this into text which is added to the correct fields in the iPhone’s address book.

I tested the app on a large collection of business cards and achieved a 90% success rate.  When scanning errors do occur, Business Card Reader provides you with the ability to edit the information. 

 A useful added feature allows you to do a lookup of your new contacts in LinkedIn and invite them to be connections.  Talk about productivity!  Business Card Reader really delivers.

At $5.99, the price is right and the payback is almost immediate.  I highly recommend this job search tool.