Sanguineti 2 Posted April 12, 2016 Share Posted April 12, 2016 Hi, I have just discovered the Evernote business card scanner - this is a great feature and now going through my tower of cards on my desk. However, the issue I have is that when you scan the card and it doesn't say recognise the address or that there is an address field, there is no option to add a field afterwards on the desktop app once saved or on the Android app after you take a picture of it. This is frustrating and should be an easy fix! I end up having to manually type the address in the note, which doesn't have a nice hyperlink and inconsistent with the other cards I have saved. Am I missing something - this seems to be possible in iOS. Surely the ability to add a field in the business card note should be easy to build in? Any help appreciated! 2 Link to comment
chronistin 184 Posted May 4, 2016 Share Posted May 4, 2016 I came here with the same problem. It's understandable not every party of every card is recognized (some of them are very creative...), but the fields should still be there for manual input. 3 Link to comment
Brandy Brooks 0 Posted May 15, 2017 Share Posted May 15, 2017 I'd love to know if this has been addressed yet. I need to be able to add websites to cards I scan in Evernote on Android; otherwise, this feature becomes much less useful, and it was the primary reason I got Evernote. Link to comment
Keith_MY 0 Posted August 16, 2017 Share Posted August 16, 2017 Same here. It's very frustrating for the below reasons: Situation 1: I scan a business card, and either 1 or more fields are not detected by the scanner, or there is more information at the back of the card. Problems: 1. I can't manually add a missing field, which means since the scanner couldn't detect the words of that field, even if I search for say, that specific email address in the future, I won't be able to find this saved business card note. 2. I can't scan two sides of a card in the same note, means I'll have to manually type out the back of the card in the 'notes' section. Which is completely stupid because the reason I'm paying for Evernote is because I want productivity and my time and effort saved. Come on guys don't build a half-baked feature that's not user behaviour oriented. Please. Link to comment
MarcInTokyo 0 Posted October 27, 2017 Share Posted October 27, 2017 On top of agreeing with the previous notes (field addition and editing on desktop, etc.) I want to remark that web-adresses on cards are not scanned in any case. Now almost everybody has a web-address on their card, so it's pretty inconvenient not to be able to scan it automatically. In addition, whenever the contact is found on LinkedIn, the only option is to send an automated invitation to connect. LinkedIn itself offers the possibility to write a personalized message. Nobody is going to write the Bible in there, but sth. like "Hi, we met last Tuesday at the ... event." Would be very convenient. Link to comment
azndoodle 0 Posted December 7, 2017 Share Posted December 7, 2017 I'm paying for a premium service with Business Card scanning feature and it won't even allow me to add more information? In my case the address wasn't detect and I should be able to manually add that info!! Link to comment
Santanu 3 Posted December 9, 2017 Share Posted December 9, 2017 On 08/12/2017 at 5:37 AM, azndoodle said: I'm paying for a premium service with Business Card scanning feature and it won't even allow me to add more information? In my case the address wasn't detect and I should be able to manually add that info!! I thought I did not figure it out.... it is a real problem. Link to comment
AngelaF 0 Posted December 21, 2017 Share Posted December 21, 2017 Experienced same problems here Link to comment
cShoresal 0 Posted January 5, 2018 Share Posted January 5, 2018 Ugh, this is very annoying. I just upgraded to premium because of the much-touted OCR scanning and started on my stack of business cards. Can't add an address field? Are you kidding me? No website addresses? Geez. I wish I had known before I upgraded my account. Link to comment
jeffsf 10 Posted January 6, 2018 Share Posted January 6, 2018 It's stunning that such a basic feature would be missing. I just did a business card where the website address was not recognized. The resulting note is useless. Link to comment
Stefan Steinbach 0 Posted January 12, 2018 Share Posted January 12, 2018 The same Problem, Android and PC i can´t add fields to the Business card. i also grade up because of this feature. So can anyone frome Evernote tell us how long it will be take to set up this feature? Link to comment
MacMertz 0 Posted April 20, 2018 Share Posted April 20, 2018 Has this been solved yet? Link to comment
Cuillioc 0 Posted September 9, 2018 Share Posted September 9, 2018 I'd like to hear from Evernote about this issue as well, I took chose to pay for a Premium account partly because of the business card scanner feature and this is a big letdown. I work with a lot of shall we say "creative" types, whose cards are very nontraditional sometimes and do not get recognized easiliy, not to mention plenty of people use the front and back of the card these days. Seems a major oversight to me! EDIT: I have directly contacted Evernote with my concern, and will update with any response I receive. Link to comment
Yehmin 2 Posted September 17, 2019 Share Posted September 17, 2019 Same here! Can't believe after over 3 years this basic function is still lacking! Link to comment
chronistin 184 Posted September 17, 2019 Share Posted September 17, 2019 What I am doing right now is adding the cards to google keep. It does a great job in recognizing all the text, and you can copy it over to Evernote or anywhere else you need it. This way does not sync with the address book or linekdin obviously, but if you are like me and don't need these features, it's the best way I found. Link to comment
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