Best Business Card Scanner Apps

A client asked me to find him a solution for inputting emails into his new email newsletter list. I asked Chat GPT and this is what it suggested. If you do a lot of networking and do not like inputting emails into your list, try out one of these solutions.

• CamCard
  Cost: Free (with ads and limited scans) or Pro version available for around $5/monthFeatures: CamCard scans business cards, extracts details, and allows export to Excel. It has contact management features, too.
• Microsoft Lens (formerly Office Lens)
  Cost: FreeFeatures: Microsoft Lens is a versatile app for scanning various types of documents, including business cards. It can save contact info to OneNote or OneDrive, and you can manually transfer data to Excel if needed.
• Google Lens
  Cost: FreeFeatures: Google Lens can scan business cards and detect contact information. You’ll need to manually enter the info into a spreadsheet, but it’s free and simple if you don’t mind an extra step.
• ScanBizCards
  Cost: Free version available; Pro version starts at $2/monthFeatures: ScanBizCards allows you to scan cards and save data directly to your contacts or CRM. You can export the data to Excel, making it easy to organize contacts in a spreadsheet.
• ABBYY Business Card Reader
  Cost: Free with limited scans; premium plans start at around $8/monthFeatures: ABBYY offers highly accurate OCR and allows for easy exporting of data to Excel or CSV. It’s useful if you want detailed, reliable scans.
• Evernote
  Cost: Free (basic) or Premium for more features
  Features: Evernote’s business card scanning feature (in the Premium version) lets you save scanned cards to your contacts or an Excel file. It’s a good choice if you already use Evernote for organization.