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iPhone Ideas -- BizCardSwapper

This app uses the iPhone camera to photograph someone's business card. The app then OCRs and parses the data on the card, stores it in your iPhone's contact list, and emails your your own contact information.  It also stores the current Location and date in their contact record as the place and time where you met this person.

After the photograph is taken, the user can view the picture, and then wipe an area of the screen that has contact information. The app would OCR the area of the screen, and present a set of suggestions for what field in the address book the data would go in.  For example, if you wipe "Software Engineer," you could select "title" from the picker, or if you select "1 Main Street," you could select "Street Address" from the picker.

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