App - Business Card Scanner + Address Book

Functionality:

• Scan cards
•  Import new scan of card
• Crop scan picture
• OCR text (via web service)
• If person handed the card to you, also get pic of person.
• Share contact with friend via email/sms
• Social network & webmail (linkedin, salesforce, gmail, ymail, flat file, xcel, cloud storage, skype, phone address book, etc)
• Upon scan, send short email/sms to that person to confirm good scan
• Tag cards with words (coworker, friend) (like folders, but use tags instead of visual folders)
• Add custom data fields & notes
• Search all data fields
• For fun, bump against world map with time or GPS
• Backup in cloud and allow management via web browser and app

Daily email of new contacts.
Daily email of "to follow up".
Weekly summary of new contacts.
Weekly aging of contacts to provide notice of bday, etc.


Competition:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.scanbizcards
Free/$6.99
"We use the Tesseract OCR engine (version 3.01). Tesseract is an open source optical character recognition engine."


Long term, paper business cards are dead.  Move idea forward to allow for a virtual business card that provides all contact info and QR:

• traditional printed business card
• display on handset (when out of cards)
• SMS to recipient (with optional note)
• bluetooth to recipient (with optional note)

Premium-priced users get free online business card.  Eventually expand that to allow for multiple levels of privacy for each data field.

contactCard.com

username.contactCard.com
or
contactCard.com/username

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plaxo.com
Import contacts from tools and services. Organize into groups. Merge duplicates.
Create your contact card, update it, and then share it with the people who matter to you most.
Sync mobile devices
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For add-on physical sales, partner with moo.com to print business cards.