GoodTimes 0 Posted May 12, 2015 Share Posted May 12, 2015 How do I scan business cards with my iPhone? The KB article is totally erroneous and has NO relation to the current version of the iPhone app!!!"How to use your phone to scan business cards into Evernote" <https://evernote.com...rticle/53057988> Link to comment
Level 5* CalS 5,280 Posted May 12, 2015 Level 5* Share Posted May 12, 2015 Have you downloaded the Scannable app from the App Store? I believe that is the current EN direction for mobile scanning of picture/document/business cards. Link to comment
RobertJSawyer 167 Posted May 12, 2015 Share Posted May 12, 2015 Actually, you don't need Scannable; almost all of its functionality is built right into the latest version of the iOS app. Just place the business card on a contrasting surface (so the camera can easily detect its edges), open the Evernote app, select "Camera" (WITHIN the Evernote app, NOT the separate Camera app on your phone), and point the camera in landscape mode at the business card. Evernote will frame up the picture AND snap the picture all by itself; you don't have to do anything else -- specifically, you DON'T have to press a shutter button to take the photo of the business card. Evernote should (in most cases!) automatically recognize that it's a business card, and then create a business-card rolodex-style note for you, extracting the information (phone numbers, etc). Link to comment
GoodTimes 0 Posted May 12, 2015 Author Share Posted May 12, 2015 downloaded it. Doesn't seem so great at recognizing business cards. Link to comment
Level 5* CalS 5,280 Posted May 12, 2015 Level 5* Share Posted May 12, 2015 Which it did you download? I have scanned business cards with the EN IOS app and Scannable. For me, when I have Scannable set to Manual it seems a bit quicker. Neither is as accurate as I would like in plucking the fields from the card. Funny the two apps don't work the same, being from the same company and all. I end up editing most cards on my PC anyay. But either does a passable job of getting the card to EN. Link to comment
Level 5* gazumped 11,656 Posted May 13, 2015 Level 5* Share Posted May 13, 2015 - and which version of EN are you on; a bug in EN iOS 7.7.4 that temporarily took away the card scanning feature was (apparently) fixed in 7.7.5 Link to comment
GoodTimes 0 Posted May 13, 2015 Author Share Posted May 13, 2015 All I get with EN IOS app or with Scannable is a plain photo, with no apparent card scanning recognition.• How can I check what version I have? (I thought I updated to the latest.)• Are you saying that in version 7.7.5, it is supposed to work like in theKB article?: <https://evernote.com...rticle/53057988> Link to comment
Level 5* CalS 5,280 Posted May 13, 2015 Level 5* Share Posted May 13, 2015 Version can be found by pressing the Settings icon and scrolling to the bottom of the page. Link to comment
GoodTimes 0 Posted May 13, 2015 Author Share Posted May 13, 2015 I have 7.7.5, but I am not seeing anything like this: <https://evernote.com...rticle/53057988> Link to comment
Level 5* CalS 5,280 Posted May 13, 2015 Level 5* Share Posted May 13, 2015 That view is an iPad view not an iPhone view. Here is the iPhone view. Link to comment
TheGooch 25 Posted June 28, 2015 Share Posted June 28, 2015 Did you figure it out? With automatic off, What I did was go to Evernote->photo then take a photo of the card in landscape mode. Then I clicked on the picture to bring it into focus, then tapped the "save as" menu in the lower middle of the screen, and selected "business card" . It OCR'd it and did a good job of recognizing the fields and the data. It missed a couple so I filled them in manually. It also works with "automatic" enabled. That is where you do the same thing, except it will detect the edges , ocr it, and let you select "business card" as the document type as well. Link to comment
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