Smartphones are good for many things, especially for personal information management. If you deal with business cards a lot, you probably discovered specialized apps that let you scan any business card to effortlessly create a contact entry in your iPhone. The App Store is a home to dozens of those, such as Business Card Reader for iPhone from Shape Services.
Most of them being paid, today their makers face a dangerous competitor: The hugely popular LinkedIn social network for business pros. The company today announced a re-launch of its free iPhone app titled CardMunch. As a result, their old app will no longer be supported.
The newly launched CardMunch program can digitize printed business cards and turn them into a digital representation, just like similar offerings on the App Store. Unlike other programs, CardMunch automatically links scanned cards to LinkedIn profiles:
Go ahead, grab yourself a copy now, it’s free. More features after the break.
- Convert business cards to address book contacts, and then add them as connections on LinkedIn.
- View relevant LinkedIn profile info, connections in common, work history, and more, for the cards you scan.
- Improved card capture experience for faster and easier card scanning.
- Manual transcription ensures high accuracy for scanned cards.
- Newly revamped user interface and visual experience
