At any seminar or conference you’ll be bound to collect a ton of business cards. But once you come home, they get set aside or even *gasp* filed in the round file. In the past, we’ve scanned them in using CardScanner. A handy little thing that. Loved it. But I promptly uninstalled the software too because – well it was just too large a software for me to keep on my computer plus, I don’t get cards too much. But now with smart phones, everything changes.

I came across CamCard (Business Card Reader) for Android by accident one day, installed and it quickly impressed me. It is so nice to be able to capture the contact information immediately and better yet have it ready on the phone where you’d need it most. You know what I like better than anything? Because my phone is in sync with my Google Apps email (and Gmail), those contacts are at my finger tips when I need them sitting at my desktop. This type of automation rocks.

It was a pity I didn’t find this sooner because at the last event I was at, some people were running out of their cards. I could have just snapped their last remaining ones, got the information and saved them from giving me their last. Oh well. I’ll be prepared next time. CamCard is not the only app of course, although it is one of the top rated ones. There’s one called BizScan that also claims to be able to capture receipts – now that would also be sweet. A quick search also showed many receipt scanners, something I’ll be trying really soon.

You’ll find it in Market on your Android. CamCard is also available for iPhone users.

What if you don’t have a smart phone? Well here’s a tip for you. Scan your cards and have them saved into Evernote. You may not be able to sync the data into your Gmail or phone or anything like that but you’ll be able to search your cards and get rid of clutter too.

Do you use a similar app that you prefer? Leave a comment to tell us about it.