Save Time with CardMunch

I have been on the road almost non-stop since the beginning of the year. Much of the time that I spend on the road is networking and meeting new people. I accumulate stacks of business cards every week and sadly not every card is maximized to its full potential. While I want to keep in touch with (almost) everyone I meet I never seem to get all the information entered into my address book.

I tried the card scanner route. It was a good idea, but unfortunately OCR just can’t deal with all the different variations in fonts, sizes and layouts that people have on their cards. That… and I really don’t want to spend what little time I have at home scanning in business cards.

Enter CardMuch

CardMunch is one of the best business productivity apps I have found to date. CardMuch allows you to take photos of business cards with your iPhone. I can do it at the airport or even on the plane. It then uploads the photo of the card to a server where actual humans enter data and review the information for accuracy. Once processed they synch the contact information back to your phone and create an address book record. Even better… it will auto send a LinkedIn invite so your contact data is never out of date. It’s free (for now anyway) and I love it.