How to easily scan and OCR business cards on iPad

Filip Němeček
2 min readSep 9, 2020

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Do you frequently need to save business cards people give you? There are better solutions than either manually typing the details to your phone or taking picture of the business cards.

You can use free document scanner app Scan it which makes scanning a business cards (or any other document) a breeze. It features OCR and immediately after scan it displays the recognized context in an interactive form.

This means what if Scan it recognizes phone number, website address and similar data, you can just tap and hold and access quick actions like saving the address, creating contact from phone number and more.

Example below shows recognized phone number along with available actions.

Recognized phone number and available actions

Scan it app also has PDF export and automatic upload to iCloud Drive so all your scans are secure. It also features easy to access sharing features.

Scan it is available for free on App Store

iPhone version

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