Price drop: ScanCard for iOS(European version) is $0.99 now!(original price was $5.99)

ScanCard – Business Card Reader(European Version) is a business card recognition application which makes your phone camera become a powerful business card scanner and a convenient business card manager. Now, we get a updated version for you with a great price reduction from $5.99 to $0.99! This price drop is valid from July 23th to August 3th.

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Updated: ScanCard – Business Card Scanner for iOS bug fixed!

Before we release next version for ScanCard,  we have fixed some bugs recently(updated on June 26th). This update will improve the program stability, so please update your ScanCard for iOS in time. If you have any comment, please feel free to contact us: support[at]xmscan.com .

What’s updated in version 2.6:

1. Fix the slow reaction problem when opening the Card Case.
2. Fix the problem that ScanCard will close automatically when taking photos, in some cases.

Update your ScanCard for iOS on the App Store: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/scancard-business-card-scanner/id458040969?mt=8

Tips for business card scanning apps

1. OCR is not 100% accurate all the time.

2. The most important thing for business card scanning apps is the quality of initial image. The background, the font size, the font color, the clearness of objects and other aspects all affect the quality of the image taken by your camera(or phone camera) and will affect the recognition results finally.

3. 300 DPI is the standard quality for image to scan. Why? 300 DPI is just that number where you gain the most accuracy without sacrificing speed and file size according to analysis. Because the improvement gap between 200 DPI scan and 300 DPI scan will be at least 2 times the improvement gap of any other resolutions. However, the improvement gap of 300 DPI and 400 DPI  is nearly absent.

Apple accelerated its evolution on discoverability of App Store

We all know App Store is a success for Apple. Thousands of developers have developed excellent businesses there. However, with over 500,000 applications on offer in the App Store, it is really difficult to stand out from the competition. And on the App Store, there are few ways to promote the apps. “New and Noteworthly” is really important for every new app but only a few can have a chance to be selected by App Store, let alone hit top spot on “Top Charts”. For a long time, “New and Noteworthly” seems the only way for new apps to became famous on the App Store. And Apple has found itself facing a growing problem of how to help users discover new app, too.