ABBYY Releases First Digital Card Holder with OCR for the iPhone
Convenient Archive to Recognise and Store Business Cards Frees iPhone® Users from Unnecessary Clutter in their Address Books
Bracknell, UK (01 November, 2011) – ABBYY®, a leading provider of document recognition, document capture, and linguistic technologies and services, today announced the availability of ABBYY CardHolder for iPhone, an on-device digital “card case” for accurate capture and convenient archiving and using of business cards. The application allows iPhone users to easily work with information on business cards without the need of transferring all contacts directly into the iPhone address book. While avoiding unnecessary clutter in their address book, users can capture and save for later any type of contact data they encounter on a daily basis, including not only business-related information but all aspects and needs of everyday life – contacts of restaurants, cafes, local taxi services, stores, beauty parlours and many more. With ABBYY’s award-winning Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology and extended language support, CardHolder also enables customers to instantly use contact data from a business card when browsing the captured image on the iPhone screen – they can make a call, send an SMS message or an e-mail right away.
ABBYY CardHolder transfers images of business cards taken with the iPhone camera to a convenient archive with quick and easy search, sorting and grouping capabilities. The application recognises contact information on a card (First Name, Last Name, Company Name, Job title, phones, faxes and e-mail addresses) and provides the ability to edit the results, including contact data classification.
“ABBYY continues to bring the benefits of OCR to a wider audience. Our new ABBYY CardHolder simplifies one of the most common usage scenarios by making the storage of business cards easy and convenient for the user. This easy-to-use digital card case with recognition technologies is perfect for business, entertainment and everyday life contacts”, said Katya Solntseva, director of Mobile Products Department at ABBYY.
The application recognises text in 20 languages, including both monolingual and multilingual business cards. It also provides an intuitive user interface. Each image of a photographed business card has touchable buttons for additional functions, so that a user can dial up a phone number, send an e-mail and SMS, or activate any link with just a single tap. The CardHolder also allows the iPhone user to make a back-up copy of recognised images of business cards within its own archive for any reason – for instance, to transfer stored data to another phone or PC using iTunes synchronisation.
iPhone users can upgrade ABBYY CardHolder for iPhone with a set of additional capabilities to manage recognised contacts. The upgraded application allows users to choose either the archive, or the iPhone address book (or both at the same time) as a storage place for business cards and provides an instant search for information about new contacts across mapping services and popular social and business networks such as Twitter®, Facebook® and LinkedIn®. The upgrade can be purchased from within the application.
Availability
ABBYY CardHolder for iPhone is available via the Apple AppStore (accessible through iTunes®). Supported interface languages are English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and Russian. Supported devices include the Apple® iPhone 3GS and 4 (OS 3.1 or later) with autofocus cameras.
For more information about the product, visit www.abbyy.com/cardholder_iphone.
About ABBYY UK Ltd.
ABBYY UK is a member of the ABBYY Group and supports sales and marketing activities in Western Europe. ABBYY is a leading provider of document recognition, data capture, and linguistic technologies and services. Its products include the ABBYY FineReader line of optical character recognition (OCR) applications, ABBYY FlexiCapture line of data capture solutions, ABBYY Lingvo dictionary software, and development tools. ABBYY Language Services provides comprehensive linguistic solutions to corporate customers. Paper-intensive organizations from all over the world use ABBYY solutions to automate time- and labour-consuming tasks and to streamline business processes. ABBYY products are used in large-scale government projects such as those of Australian Taxation Office, Lithuanian Tax Inspectorate, Ministry of Education of Russia, Ministry of Education of Ukraine, and Montgomery County Government of the USA. Companies that license ABBYY technologies include BancTec, Canon, EMC/Captiva, Hewlett-Packard, KnowledgeLake, Microsoft, NewSoft, Notable Solutions, Samsung Electronics and more. ABBYY OCR applications are shipped with equipment from the world’s top manufacturers such as Epson, Fujitsu, Fuji Xerox, Microtek, Panasonic, Plustek, Toshiba, and Xerox. ABBYY is headquartered in Moscow, Russia, with offices in Germany, the UK, the United States, Canada, Ukraine, Cyprus, Australia, Japan and Taiwan. For more information, visit www.ABBYY.com.
ABBYY, the ABBYY Logo, FineReader, ADRT, Lingvo, FlexiCapture, Recognition Server, and PDF Transformer are either registered trademarks or trademarks of ABBYY Software Ltd. Other product names mentioned herein may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective owners and are hereby recognized.
For more information, please contact:
ABBYY
Colin Miller
Elsenheimerstrasse 49
D – 80687 Munich
Tel.: 089/511 159-0
Fax: 089/511 159-59
E-Mail: press_eu@abbyy.com
Web: www.ABBYY.com
RealWire:
The registered address of RealWire is:
Realwire Limited, Unit 1, Exchange Close, North Hykeham, Lincoln, LN6 3TR.
Realwire Limited is a company registered in England and Wales: 4026690
