Patent ID: 7702128

Claim:
A system for scanning a data card from within MS Outlook® directly into MS Outlook® address book database, comprising: a) a data card scanner; b) an application program module running on a computer system, wherein said application program module is integrated into MS Outlook®; c) an OCR module; and d) MS Outlook® address book database, wherein activation of MS Outlook® operatively activates said application program module; wherein said application program module operatively activates said data card scanner to scan a business card disposed at said data card scanner, and thereby creating a card image of said business card; wherein said application program module operatively identifies image data and textual data in said card image; wherein said application program module operatively activates said OCR module to extract textual data from said card image; wherein said application program module identifies textual data items in said textual data; and wherein said application program module manipulates said textual data items to create or update a contact record in said MS Outlook® address book database.