I’d just have to check that the OCR got everything right, anyway, and copy it over to our database. So I might as well take the five seconds to enter all the information myself.
Heh. My “rolodex” is a bunch of business cards I keep rubber-banded together for when I need a phone number, my word-processing file with addresses typed in for when I need to send an envelope, and my dog-eared old address book for everyone else. Old school, baby!
My iPhone has an app that does that.
As do many Windows Mobile (and probably Android) phones. It’s not especially complex if you have a good OCR library – I implemented similar functionality for Windows fax software back in the mid 90s, when I was only a few years out of college.
Definitely Android. As I said above…with my Droid I can scan a business card and everything will be parsed out into the proper fields and with a click it can go in my address book. And the app (Google Goggles, which does tons of other stuff, like translating a picture of text) is free.
I have contacts that change frequently. Plus I use the Rolodex cards to track supply contacts. Not all of these contacts or information come from business cards. I’ll keep my Rolodex. It’s organized & I know right where to find something!
This for me too. I have used Outlook for this but am transitioning.
I used to have a Rolodex on my desk at work. Before computerized contact lists they were the gold standard for contact directories.
FYI, that comment was from 11 years ago.
Yikes! Well, it’s still true.
Oddly, the newest comment is the person that still uses an actual Rolodex.
In the yuppie-inspired culture of the 1980s, having a rolodex was one of the symbols of having made it and being someone in the networked circles. It was similar for the filofax, which sparked Taking Care of Business, a 1990 comedy with James Belushi about someone who finds a businessman’s information-crammed filofax.
I, personally, don’t keep a record of people’s contact data at all. E-mails are in Outlook, and if I need to call a person I’ve received e-mails from, I’ll search Outlook to find an old e-mail that has the person’s signature line with phone number in it. Not the most efficient method, I know, but by now it’s what I’m used to.
I have an app that scans and stores business cards and adds all the details to my phone contacts
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I’ve always used the high-tech Big Sheet of Phone Listings pinned to the wall, which features everyone I frequently contact, with post-it notes helpfully stuck on at the bottom for extras that haven’t yet made the revised master list.
Never needs recharging.
In the 1960s my dad helped count the money in his church. In the office was sort of a Rolodex that was used to mail newsletters. Each “card” was made of aluminum and had the name and address raised. They were stored in long rows in flat partitioned boxes. Somehow they got run through a machine that printed the envelopes. We used to add new names to the boxes from time to time.
Unfortunately I have become too used to being able to access any information I want from wherever I am for this to work for me
iPhone.
Of course it never needs recharging. That list is powered entirely by its author’s smug sense of self-satisfaction. 
Just a thought. Does anyone keep notes about ‘contacts’ here on the SDMB? Where they are from, age, gender, profession, interests, politics, etc.