OCR for Business Cards

[santonelli]

If you add a scan of a business card a Contact may be added and populatet automatically.

[Netroxen]

This is a really cool idea, but we need to find a way of implementing this. Every business card has a different background, font and text arrangement which makes detecting this sort of thing difficult.

One of the main issues is that every business card can use a different font, we have to train Tesseract to recognize different font types. There is a free service which can be found that does just that: http://trainyourtesseract.com/