Practical applications: OCR, translation and business card management on iPhone

More and more practical tools are being developed to make the iPhone the ideal companion for business travellers. Publisher ABBYY has launched a number of particularly practical applications for using the smartphone for character recognition, translating paper documents, and even managing business cards.

The TextGrabber + Translator tool launched by ABBYY for iPhone now lets you use your smartphone as an OCR - a character recognition tool - after simply taking a photo of the document you want. The publisher has added a practical extra: instant translation, based on Google Translate. The other new feature offered by ABBYY is the management of business contacts: CardHolder is able, after photographing a business card, to extract its various elements for later reuse. Two practical applications, already available from the App store at €2.39.