Why most scanner apps mangle Japanese business cards, what a good meishi scan should capture — kanji, furigana, romaji — and how to digitise a stack properly.
How to exchange meishi without embarrassment: the two-handed exchange, reading the card, where to place it in a meeting, and what to do with the stack afterwards.
A practical workflow for turning 50–200 collected business cards into a clean, shared contact list your sales team can actually use — including Japanese and mixed-language cards.
Japan's dominant business-card apps are superb — and Japanese-first. What Eight and Sansan offer English speakers, where the gaps are, and the alternatives for bilingual teams.
An honest comparison of Eight, Sansan, CamCard, HiHello, Covve and meishiscan for scanning Japanese and English business cards — pricing, bilingual support, and who each one suits.
Four practical ways to turn an accumulated pile of business cards into clean digital contacts: photo scanning, batch PDF scanning, spreadsheet import, and pasted text — with a realistic time budget for each.
How to make scanned business cards appear in the iPhone Contacts app and stay in sync, using the CardDAV account support built into iOS — no app install required.