Business cards are one of the most common methods of sharing personal/business contact information with an individual. Undoubtedly, business cards have evolved over time in form and function. Nowadays, people have things like QR codes on their cards so that one can easily scan their card details with their smartphones.
However, there are still many people who have not yet begun to adapt to the change and every time they receive such a business card, the most common practice they follow is to keep them in their wallet and move them to the business card holder. card afterwards. The problem starts when we accumulate quite a few of them and it becomes annoying to search through them. So today let’s make life a little simpler and see how we can ease the task of storing business cards with Evernote.
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Whenever you upload an image to Evernote, it automatically scans that image for any text content using OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technology and makes the image available for search. like you search for a plain text. You can use this feature to note a variety of things, such as invoices and DVD covers. Today we will see how we can use it to save business cards by digitizing them.
The best thing about digitizing cards on Evernote is that you can still carry all of them in your pocket (on the Evernote app on your smartphone) and finding them takes seconds.
To get started, first of all, we will have to upload a clear and sharp photo of our business card to our Evernote account. There are quite a few ways to do that. Let’s look at them one by one.
Using a smartphone
Almost all smartphones today come equipped with an amazing high-resolution camera and autofocus capabilities that make them the best and easiest way to store business cards in Evernote. . Leave a card on the table and choose to take snapshots on Evernote while taking notes.
Make sure all text is clear for better OCR and snapping. Upload all the business cards that you want to note one by one and save them under the same card for simplicity. You can skip adding the title and other details when you want to do it quickly. Adding a tag though is recommended.
Use the scanner
If you have scanner access, you can scan all your business cards and upload them to Evernote as photo notes. Although this is a less time consuming method, the quality of the photo is the best.
Using Evernote Desktop
If you have a webcam, you can also use it to upload business cards. It’s a bit clumsy approach, but as long as you have a decent web cam (>2 MP recommended) it should work. The webcam feature only works on the product’s desktop application.
On the Windows app, click the little arrow near New note button and select New Webcam Note (Ctrl+Shift+W). Make sure most of the capture area has tag content and click Button Snapshot. (On a Mac it will say New iSight Notes)
Pro Tip: Move the card back and forth for the best focus, but while clicking, keep your hand steady and steady.
Save and Search Business Cards
After you’ve taken a nice photo of your business card and uploaded it to the Evernote server, just sit back and relax. You don’t need to do anything else. Now, Evernote will spend some time analyzing the photos. Using OCR technology, it detects text and numbers embedded in business card images. However, synchronization is required here as the data will be downloaded from its servers. It usually does it automatically every few minutes so that shouldn’t be a problem.
After a while, if the photo quality is good, you can search for your business card by whatever text it contains. Searching can be done on the web, desktop apps, and even on smartphones. If Evernote gets a match for the string you’re looking for on your business card, Evernote will highlight the text and return the results to you.
Conclusion
That’s all, Evernote just makes your life a little simpler. I always name the notes on my business cards the name of the individual or the company and put them under the ‘business card’ tag. It helps me keep them organized.
So what do you think about this feature? Impressive huh?
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