In your daily hectic business schedule, you are sure to lose information, contact numbers of people you meet and other essential piece of information.

After all it’s with people that you make business so how can you afford to lose contact with them. And I think it’s what made you buy a BlackBerry.

But, do you know you can now easily turn your BlackBerry into a Business Card Reader. Yes, you can now augment your BlackBerry with Business Card Reader application that has been introduced by Shape Services.

The Business Card Reader is compatible with all the brand-new BlackBerry devices such as: BlackBerry Tour 9630, BlackBerry Storm 2 9520 & 9550, BlackBerry Storm 9500 & 9530, BlackBerry Curve 8900 and BlackBerry Bold 9700.

Besides, the new application also gives support for multiple-language business cards right from English to French, Italian, Spanish and German business cards. Through this app on your BlackBerry, you can easily scan the card and store the info stated on the card within seconds. Besides, just storing the information on the business card, Business Card Reader also allows your BlackBerry phone to save the information as a new contact.

Business Card Reader scans the business card with the help of embedded module camera. Then, it makes use of an enhanced text recognition technology to read the picture and the appropriate characters are stored in apt fields in your BlackBerry address book.

Earlier, you had to manually enter every detail of the contact in the respective fields of BlackBerry address book, but now you just have to scan the card. It saves a lot of time and energy. The ABBYY-licensed technology allows you to capture the business card info accurately and save it to the address book of BlackBerry in a reliable manner.

Besides, Business Card Reader allows you to search the scanned contact on LinkedIn and read the contact’s profile on LinkedIn without having to exit the program. Business Card Reader, although specially designed for businessmen, will surely suit the needs of all who have to deal with many people every day and find it difficult to manage their contacts list.

The 7-day trial version of Business Card Reader is free and on its expiry, you have to pay a registration amount of $9.95 through your PayPal account.