I grabbed a new app appearing earlier this week,
CamCard. $14.99.
CamCard - Business Card Reader v1.0.20100106 Application for Android | Productivity
Among its features: OCR. Once that process is complete, it will toss the info into your Droid phonebook. Predictably, the accuracy of the OCR is fully dependent on the type of card being photographed. Plain white cards, with a standard typeface, are handled well. Fancier typeface will cause problems. Don't even bother with non-pastel color cards, unless you have some Excedrin Extra-Strength handy! Now, lemme try to give you a "you are there" perspective on this app.
Mechanically speaking, I found it best to set the card against a dark background before taking the pic. I placed a card on my desk, hovering over it with the camera turned in landscape mode. Once the card comes into view, the app shows 4 corner handlers. It then made a sort of whirring noise, and within seconds, a green frame appeared around the card. The snapshot was then automatically taken (although there is a button on screen allowing you to manually take the pic). I heard a beep, which apparently signals that the card's contents have been digested. You can then view the associated contact in your phonebook to see what clean-up is required. Oddly, while most cards use a font friendly to number clarity, the app sometimes stumbled. So, I learned to pay particular attention to the phone numbers post-OCR.
You can save the card's image to the SD card, but you can not rename it, absent Astro or another file manager. This proves to be a critical flaw --- the app has a "Load Card" feature. Tap it, and you're dumped into the Gallery, where every other picture also appears. The thumbnails are way too small to distinguish among the business cards. Thus, this particular feature is completely useless.
Another problem: Many cards include a contact name with title. The app has no clue how to properly deal with that info, so I had to continuously revise that specific info per card within my phonebook. Sometimes the name was tossed into the name section of the phonebook; othertimes, it showed up in a weird area, like website. Asurion's
AddressBook-Beta allows you to set up customized fields (thereafter viewable in the native phonebook), so I used it to better set up this info.
http://www.asurionmobile.com/addressbook.html
BTW, each and every website appearing on a card was correctly tossed into the website field of the phonebook-- and accurately!
Ultimately, I uninstalled and refunded. At some point, this is likely to be a superb app, but it's just not there yet. Of the 100+ cards I set aside for this experiment, substantially less than half were handled as expected/desired by the app. The rest are now waiting for me to input manually.
As I remain determined to lessen paper within my home/office, for the time being, I've gone back to
Scan2PDF Mobile for Android 2.
http://www.burrotech.com/scan2pdfmobile/
No OCR, but the PDFs are faithful reproductions. The built-in mechanism allowing for easy naming of files permitted me to set up an electronic rolodex of sorts, which I review using a file manager, with a PDF viewer installed.
At this writing, there's nothing else in the app store worthy of anyone's time re Business Cards. I say that after having tried each and every one. Suggestion: try CamCard on a day when you have the time to experiment. The images of cards you've added with it will remain after the app is uninstalled. Likewise, whatever was added to the phonebook remains.