CamCard
User Manual for Android (V3.0)
Table of Contents
Introduction ... 1
Main Page of the Application ... 2
Get Card Images ... 3
Capture Card Images ... 3
Select Card Images ... 4
Recognize Email Signatures ... 4
Add Manually ... 4
Import System Contacts ... 4
Card Recognition ... 4
Save Recognition Result ... 5
Card Holder ... 5
Manage Groups ... 5
Manage Cards ... 6
Introduce ... 6
View Cards ... 6
Add New Card ... 7
Card Handy Operations ... 7
Application Settings ... 8 Synchronization ... 8 Help ... 9 More ... 9 Supported Platforms ... 9 Platform Versions ... 9 User Difference ... 10
Appendix One: FAQs ... 11
Appendix Two: EULA ... 11
Appendix Three: Privacy Policy ... 11
Introduction
IntSig CamCard is a mobile/web based business card recognition and management application. It can get business card images by capturing with the mobile phone camera, choosing from the existing ones on your phone, recognizing QR two-dimensional code images, or by recognizing
email signatures. Contact information from the business card images will be saved after recognition, and you can easily manage these information as well as the card images.
With a registered CamCard account, users are able to keep their saved contact information and card images synchronized with the web server and available in any client for CamCard. Therefore, as long as a business card is recognized once, it can be saved to multiple devices automatically. CamCard also enables users to create and manage one or more business card images and contact information of their own, so that they can share the most suitable card information in different social occasions.
Additionally, CamCard has got the following unique and practical characteristics: 1. During the business card recognition, CamCard is able to enhance the images by
automatically cutting the edges, making them look clearer and neater.
2. CamCard can correct the image rotation angles automatically based on the image content, so that users do not need to manually rotate the card images.
3. CamCard can automatically recognize the language of the image content, so that users do not need to manually choose a specific language.
4. CamCard can export all your cards as Excel and vCard files.
5. CamCard business card image recognition supports English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, etc.
This help guide mainly introduces the functions and usages of CamCard for Android.
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Main Page of the Application
After starting CamCard for Android you can see that the main interface consists of three parts: My Card, Card Recognition and Management, and Settings and Help. The icons and functions of these three parts are:
My Card – Create and manage one or more card images and contact information of the phone owner.
: Capture Cards – Start the phone camera to capture business cards.
: Choose Images – A dialog will be popped up to let user choose existing card images for recognition.
:Manage Cards – Enter Card Holder where user can manage his or her saved card information. Supported functions also include Add, Introduce, Group, and Export, etc.
:Settings – Enter the Settings page, where user can modify settings of the app’s functionality.
:Sync – Synchronize card data with the Cloud and other clients.
:Help – Read the common tips and user guide.
:More – See more products from IntSig.
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Get Card Images
CamCard is able to get card images in multiple ways:
Capture Card Images
Tap the button to enter the camera view finder. User can press the physical camera button, tap the center button of the navigation keyboard, or tap the button to capture images, which will then automatically enter the recognition process.
Tap button to adjust the camera flash.
Switch to mode to capture a single image for recognition.QR two-dimensional code will be automatically recognized.
Switch to mode to capture multiple images. Recognition of these images will be done in the background, and user can check the recognition status of each image in the Card Holder.
Select Card Images
Tap the button to open the photo album. User can choose existing card images for recognition.
After tapping “Share” and selecting “CamCard” in the system album, CamCard will import the selected image and perform recognition in the background.
If user chooses several images in multiple mode of the album and selects to share via CamCard, CamCard will import the selected images and perform recognition in the background.
Recognize Email Signatures
Copy the signature of an email to clipboard, tap the “Add” button in the upper right corner on the Card Holder page, and select “Signature”. CamCard will recognize the contact information
contained in the signature and create a default card image.
Add Manually
Tap the “Add” button in the upper right corner on the Card Holder page and select “Create a card manually” to manually add a new business card. CamCard will create a default card image.
Import System Contacts
Tap the “Add” button in the upper right corner on the Card Holder page and select “Import phone contacts” to import system contacts into the Card Holder. CamCard will create a default card image.
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Card Recognition
When user has captured or opened a card image for recognition, CamCard will enhance the image by cutting its edges to make it better for a business card. The recognition result will be shown after the processing and recognition.
The recognition result window has three areas, which from top to bottom are item image inspector, recognition result editor, and functional buttons respectively.
In the result editor area, each item is displayed as its type and content. User is allowed to modify them.
If user taps a textbox of an item, the block of image on the whole card image corresponding to this specific item will be shown in the upper item image inspector area, so that the user can compare the image and its recognition result and make modification if needed. If user does not want any of the items, tap the mark to remove that item. Note that the “Name” item cannot be removed.
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Save Recognition Result
In the recognition result page:
Tap button “Choose account” to save the current contact information to the selected group of the user’s phone contacts or Card Holder.
Tap button “Add card’s back side image” to add a back image to the current card.
Tap button “Merge phone contacts” to merge the current contact with the selected phone contacts.
Tap “Save” button to save result to the selected account and group. Open “Contacts” or “Card Holder” to check the card information just saved.
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Card Holder
In the Card Holder page, user can manage saved card information. Card Holder also support functions such as Add, Introduce, Group, and Export, etc.
Press the Menu button and select “Sort” to choose one of the methods to sorting the cards in the list.
Manage Groups
In the Card Holder page, tap the icon in the upper left corner to show or hide the group lists on the left side of the card list.
At the bottom of the group list, tap the 【+】 button to add a new group; Press the Menu button and select “Manage groups” to manage all the groups.
emails to the group members, add new member, and rename or delete the group.
Manage Cards
In Card Holder page, press the Menu button and select “Manage cards” to enter multi-select mode. Then user can delete the selected cards, add them to a group, send SMS to contacts, and export the cards.
CamCard supports exporting as Excel files, vCard files, and exporting into system contacts.
Introduce
In the Card Holder page, press the Menu button and select “Introduce” to enter Introduce mode. User can select multiple cards, and then preview all the contacts to be introduced. The
introduction will be sent as emails, and the receivers can be all the contacts in the introduction list or others.
View Cards
In the Card Holder page, tap a card to check its card image.
User can swipe left or right to view different cards. Two-finger pinch can be used to zoom in and out.
There are six icons at the bottom of the card images, by which user can perform operations such as making a phone call, sending SMS, sending email, visiting the website on the card, checking the geographical location, searching via LinkedIn, and sending LinkedIn invitations.
Press the Menu button, there are five options user can choose from:
Tap to edit contact information.
Tap to share the current contact information.
Tap to generate a QRCode image for the current contact.
Tap to rotate card image 90 degrees and save the result.
Tap to add or check the back image of the card.
Tap to add or check the card note.
Add New Card
Tap the button in the upper right corner of the Card Holder page to create a new card. User can choose one of the following ways: capture card image, select card image, manually enter card, recognize email signature, and import from system contacts. The newly created card will be added to the current displayed group.
Card Handy Operations
In the card list, tap the card image in front of each card will bring out several handy buttons.
Tap the button to make a phone call. If the current card contains no phone number, this button will not be shown.
Tap the button to send SMS to the contact. If the current card contains no phone number, this button will not be shown.
Tap the button to send email to the contact. If no email address is available, this button will not be shown.
Tap the button to visit the website of the contact. If no URL is available, this button will not be shown.
Tap the button to check the address of the contact via Google Maps. If no address is available, this button will not be shown.
Tap and hold on a card in the card list for a while, a menu will pop up, allowing user to share, delete, edit, group, and export the card.
Note: If a card is deleted, all information about this card in the Card Holder, together with its card images will be deleted.
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Application Settings
Tap the button in the main page to enter Application Settings page.
1. Account Info – Create or log in to CamCard account.
2. Recognition Languages – Set the language supported during recognition.
3. If “Use system camera” is checked, when capturing card images, CamCard will use the system camera application, where the multiple mode is not available. If there’s no memory card, this option will be disabled.
4. Tap “Import” to import 2.x version backup data from memory card into the Card Holder. If there’s no memory card, this option will be disabled.
5. Tap “Set password” to set a password to the Card Holder. 6. Tap “About” to see detailed version information.
7. Tap “Update” to get the latest version of CamCard. 8. Tap “Report Log” to send log information to IntSig.
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Synchronization
Tap the “Sync” icon in the main page to synchronize card data with the Cloud and other clients. If user has not logged in, CamCard login and register page will be shown.
Thanks to the sync feature, you don’t need to worry about losing your card image data any more. You can log in to www.camcard.com to manage your cards.
There’s no need to worry about the security and privacy problems of your card data, either. Please refer to the Privacy Policy in the appendix.
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Help
Tap the “Help” icon in the main page to see FAQs and user guide of CamCard.
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More
Tap the “More” icon in the main page to check out more products from our company. In addition to CamCard, CamScanner and CamDictionary are also great applications made by IntSig. You can download and install them from Apple Store or Android Application Store.
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Supported Platforms
CamCard currently supports multiple platforms. The version for each platform has some difference with the others:
Supported platforms include iPhone, Android, iPad, Web, Windows Phone 7, BlackBerry, and Bada.
Platform Versions
Platform Version User
registration supported
Sync supported Data recovery supported
iPhone 3.0 Yes Yes Yes
Android phone 3.0 Yes Yes Yes
Web 1.0 Yes Yes Yes
Android pad 1.0 No No No
Windows Phone7 1.5 No No No
BlackBerry 1.5 No No No
Bada 1.0 No No No
CamCard for mobile platforms has a lite version and a full version, the difference between which is that the lite version has a limit of the number of recognized card images that the user can save, as well as the lite version contains ads.
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User Difference
Registered user of CamCard can enjoy more practical features. However, user does not need to register in order to use the lite or full versions of CamCard for mobile platforms.
Difference between registered users and non-registered users when using the lite version for mobile platforms:
Lite version features Registered users Non-registered users
Number of recognized card images that can be saved
Initially 30, 3 per week later Initially 3, 1 per week later
Sync Yes No
Access cards from the web Yes No
Data recovery Yes No
Difference between registered users and non-registered users when using the full version for mobile platforms:
Full version features Registered users Non-registered users
Unlimited number of recognized card images that can be saved
Yes Yes
Sync Yes No
Access cards from the web Yes No
Data recovery Yes No
