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The recognized data can be saved in either your device contacts or the app digital storage.\n\nKEY FEATURES\n• QUICK AND ACCURATE SCANNING\nABBYYs optical character recognition technology provides quick & accurate recognition of all contact information: names, organizations, phone numbers, e-mail addresses, etc. \t \n• AUTO-CLICK PHOTO FEATURE\nAutomatically focuses on the business card, detects its edges, crops any extraneous background & captures an image of the card all by itself. \n• EASY CHECK OF RECOGNIZED DATA\nThe app highlights “unusual” characters with blue color and displays the original image so that you can quickly confirm the output of the app.\n• APPLE WATCH APP. You won’t need to reach for your iPhone or iPad to remember somebody’s name. View contacts and make phone calls right from BCR on your Apple Watch! \n• AUTOMATIC NORMALIZATION OF PHONE AND EXTENTION NUMBERS\nBCR will automatically put in all the missing parts so that you can reach the contact even if the country code was omitted in print. \n• AUTOCOMPLETION OF ADDRESSES\nBCR corrects any typos and fills in the missing address fields so you can easily find it on the map.\n• MANUAL BACKUPS. Manual backups to archive and restore to another device.\n• Export contacts to Salesforce Leads (premium account required). BCR can export business cards to Enterprise, Unlimited, and Performance Editions of SF license.  Professional Edition does not allow BCR export. \n• Set up voice commands in Siri Shortcuts app to open business cards by voicing the name of the owner.\n• Spotlight Search to find business cards from BCR \n• Export business cards to MS Excel in .CSV format.\n• Smart Facebook and LinkedIn search: connect social media account to the business card and auto upload photo of contact from Facebook.\n• Search in iPhone Maps for the address of your contacts.\n• Exchange digitally and forward recognized contacts via e-mail as VCard or JPEG files or via SMS as a plain text.\n• Share your contacts using QR code.\n• Support 25 languages including recognition of multilingual cards.\n- French\n- German\n- Greek\n- Japanese\n- Indonesian\n- Italian\n- Korean\n- Norwegian (both Bokmal and Nynorsk)\n- Polish\n- Portuguese (Portugal)\n- Portuguese (Brazil)\n- Russian\n- Spanish\n- Swedish\n- Turkish\n- Ukrainian\n\nThe free version provides 10 card recognition. Enable Premium to get unlimited functionality:\n• Unlimited business card recognition\n• Export to Excel\n• No ads\n\nPremium Account auto-renewable subscription allows using all functions of this app. Subscription length periods:  1 month with 7 days free trial, and 1 year. The subscription is automatically renewed at the end of the period unless you choose to cancel the subscription at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Payment will be charged to your iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. You can manage your subscription and switch off the auto-renewal by accessing your Account Settings after purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited if you purchase a subscription to that publication. \n\nRead us:\nabbyy.com/blog/mobile\nFacebook.com/ABBYYsoft\nTwitter @ABBYY_Software\nYouTube.com/ABBYYvideos\n\nPrivacy Policy abbyy.com/privacy\nTerms of Use abbyybcr.com/en/eula\n\nLooking forward to your feedback on the App Store!","facts":{"developer_id":347345477,"developer_url":"http://www.abbyybcr.com/en/?utm_source=AppStore&utm_medium=BCRDescription&utm_campaign=Shop","first_released":"2014-09-23T16:39:57Z","support_url":"https://mobile-support.abbyy.com/hc/en-us/categories/115000859065-ABBYY-Business-Card-Reader","privacy_url":"https://www.abbyy.com/privacy/","website_url":"http://www.abbyybcr.com/en/?utm_source=AppStore&utm_medium=BCRDescription&utm_campaign=Shop","app_version":"9.8.10","release_notes":"This app has been updated by Apple to prepare for watchOS 27 compatibility. 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