If any of you are like me and deal with/meet lots of vendors and salespeople, keeping up with the mountain of business cards can be a job in and of itself.  Whether you keep them in some kind of binder or Rolodex, or maybe just piled in a shoebox, they can be a real pain to sort through when you want someone’s number.  Plus, heaven forbid you want all of their information in your PDA or PC because then you have to type it all in by hand and that’s no fun either.  Instead of paying $300 or more for a business card scanner, I found a nifty little app for my iPhone that takes advantage of the camera to take a picture of the card and then OCR all of the info, even categorizing it properly as well.  So email addresses get put into email address fields, and phone numbers in phone number slots and so on.  You get a chance to verify that it recognized everything correctly, and it even compares it to the section of the scanned card it got the info from, very easy.  Once that is done, the contact gets shoved right into your contact list, easy as pie, it’s great!  Now I am sure Blackberry and other platforms have similar apps, this post is partly to rave about the concept of doing this on your smart phone/PDA, but also for iPhone users out there to give a nod to the application “WorldCard Mobile”, because it works really well.  It’s currently priced at $5.99 in the app store and worth every penny and more, really.  So check it out if you have a need for something like this.  If you already have an iPhone, $5.99 is cheap compared to that business card scanner!  Read more about it here …

*Note: This is not a paid endorsement, I am posting this because I like the app and felt it would be beneficial to share.