Special camera issue: Business Card

[PinkElephant 8,174]

Some posts in the forum miss options like business cards or Post-It scans. Here is how for Business Cards:

1. When on the start screen, click on the „up arrow“ at the right of the „new note“ button. Choose „Scan document“. The camera opens.
2. Hold it on a business card, it will select it, detect the business card property and create a new note with the business card plus extracted information.
3. If it does not detect it as a business card automatically, you have a miniature picture of the photo taken under the camera view. To the right is a pencil symbol. When you click on it, you get a next screen with a „save as“ at the bottom. Below is a selection, where you can select the document type as business card. However, the picture will not be that good, so better try again until it auto-selects.
4. In the new note there will be some fields with extracted information plus a picture of the card. If you need it, take another picture of the back of the card using the camera behind the blue +-button when in editing mode, and close the note to save it.

When you are inside of a note already, you can use the blue + button and select camera as well. Scan the card, save it. When it was detected as a business card, it will save, but it will be inside of a new note, containing the fields and the picture. It will not save to the note from which the scan was started.

[HeBoIz 246]

additional to step 4: You can (and sometimes must) edit or change the automatically extracted information in the fields of the new generated note before saving

[PinkElephant 8,174]

Yes, true, but this is not specific to EN. I use  a dedicated business card scanner, where you can even select the country from which the card origins (which leads to different formats, Altered ZIP codes, languages etc.), but even there I have to manually edit the scanned results.

With business cards a dictionary does not work either that OCR software usually has in the background to correct on spelling.

So this is pretty much what you get when scanning cards.