CamCard A Professional Business Card Reader 1. Description 2. Get Started 3. Best experience 4. Tips for productivity 5. Card Holder 6. Connection 7. Settings 8. Upgrade from trial to pro 9. Support 1. Description CamCard is a professional business card reader based on IntSig's market leading OCR technologies. It helps you turn piles of business cards into your phone Contacts with just several clicks. What you only need to do is just to provide clear card photos either by built-in camera or album.
Snap and click, all info on the business card will be automatically recognized and categorized. Supported categories include but not limited to: First Name, Last Name, Tel., Mobile, Fax, Email, Address, Company, Department, Job Title, Postal, Web, IM... This version also provides a Card Holder to save all the business card images. After the card is recognized and saved in Card Holder, you can make call, send SMS/email, search in Linkedin, visit homepage, and locate on the google map right from the Card Holder. Features: - Auto rotate card image - Auto detect languages - Recognizes English, Chinese (simplified/traditional), Japanese, Korean business cards - Auto categorize the recognized text - Add to phone contacts - Merge with existing contact - Batch processing. Capture 1-100 cards and recognize them all in one time - Card Holder. All card images are automatically saved in Card Holder System Requirements: - OS 5.0 - AutoFocus Camera - Internet connection 2. Get Started
After CamCard started, you can choose Take Picture to take a card photo or Select Picture to select an existing card photo. When taking the photo, please make sure the card fills the camera s viewfinder, which promises the text is as big as possible. For portrait card, please rotate it to landscape to fill the camera s viewfinder. Don t be worry about the text orientation on card, CamCard will handle it automatically. After the card photo is taken or selected, the recognition process starts. It will connect to the IntSig s web service to recognize the card. The recognition process usually takes about 2-10 seconds depends on the network connection speed. After the scanning process finished, all information on card should be recognized and an editing page will show up to help you verify and modify the recognition results. You can modify the recognized text according to the corresponding image showed on top. Each line s category can be changed by choosing an item on the left. You can also add more lines such as Note, IM, etc. by clicking the <Add> button at the bottom. After the result is verified, you can click Add to Contact or Merge with Contact to export the contact information to phone s Contacts. The card then will be saved in Card Holder automatically. 3. Best experience 1. Sometimes in conference or exhibition you may get piles of business cards. CamCard provides batch processing option to help you with such cases. Compared to manually input the cards info, CamCard extremely shorten this process from hours to minutes. Much time is saved and your life becomes easier. All you need is to continuously take photo of these cards. Then click Done, all cards will be automatically scanned
and recognized at one time. Put you phone aside and wait for several minutes. When it s LED is shining, all the cards are recognized. The thing left to do is just check each card s result and add it to Contacts. Turn on the Batch Processing and choose the Tip When Finished mode in settings to enable the batch mode. 2. You may not always have a good internet connection. When CamCard can t connect to the web service or the recognition process becomes very slow, you d better stop the recognition process. The cards are automatically saved in Card Holder. Whenever you get a free and fast Wi-Fi connection, you can choose recognize menu in Card Holder. Then the batch recognition process will begin to deal with these cards. 4. Tips for productivity - Make sure the card fills the camera s viewfinder to make the text is as big as possible. - For portrait card, rotate it to landscape to fill the camera s viewfinder. - Good lighting environment can make the recognition results much better. - Use batch mode for tens of cards. 5. Card Holder All cards are saved in Card Holder no matter recognized or not. If sometime CamCard can t connect to the web service or the recognition is very slow, don t be worry, you can stop the recognition. Cards are then automatically saved in Card Holder. Whenever you get a free and fast Wi-Fi connection, you can choose recognize menu in Card Holder to batch process these cards.
In Card Holder, you can search any card by name or by company. Keywords are separated by space. For example, if you type m j, the person Michael Jackson and the some person in company Motion Jokes will show up. Click the card to enter the Card Info page or press Del to delete the card. In Card Info page, 6 action buttons are displayed at the bottom and 3 editing buttons are on the top. You can make call, SMS, email, search in LinkedIn, visit homepage or locate on google map by clicking the corresponding button. You can also click the button on the top to zoom in, edit info or delete the card. 6. Connection CamCard provides several connection types to visit the web service: Wi-Fi, TCP, CMNET, BES, BIS, WAP2. If you don t know about how to choose them, you can select <Test...> for Connection Type in settings. A Connection Test page will show up to help you to make the decision. Green square indicates connection successful while red one indicates connection failed. Data charges will be billed via your carrier provider at your agreed rate. 7. Settings About: Display the version, copyright info and support email address.
Recognition Languages: Turn specific language off may help you with a better recognition result. For example, if you re not recognizing Japanese cards, you can turn it off. Then Japanese characters will never show up in the recognition result. Code: You can input the activation code and your contact email to activate the professional version. Connection Type: Used for web service connection. If you don t know how to choose, you can select <Test...> to test each connection type. Default Server: Choose server for web service. Enable SSL: If SSL is enabled, the connection will be strongly encrypted. A dialog may be prompted when recognizing to ask you if you trust the server s certificate. If the certificate s domain is *.intsig.net, please choose trust. Batch Processing: Turn on/off the batch mode. File Location:
Choose where to save the card images. If your phone s memory is not enough, you can choose SD Card. Flash Mode: Choose flash mode for camera. Tip When Finished: If you choose Shock or LED, when recognition finished, the phone will shock or the LED will be shining. 8. Upgrade from trial to pro If you like it, please purchase an activation code either in App World or IntSig s website. After the code has been purchased, you can input it in settings to upgrade the version. 9. Support Please feel free to contact us: bb_support@intsig.com