How can I scan business cards and populate the contact fields in MS Outlook with the scanned data?

Question: I'm wondering if there is a way to scan business cards (thru a scanner) and upload the result into Outlook contacts menu to populate those fields instead of having to manually enter those info.

Answer:
1. After you scan the card, use some good ocr software to mine the text off the pic
2. export the contact of your outlook to a file using commas separate value(csv) format
3. open the csv file, it will be like a normal excel spreadsheet, copy and paste the mined text to the relevant column.
4. proofready the entries, save the excel spreadsheet as csv format, import it back to outlook as contact.
Hope this helps.

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