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The relevant information gets filed under the fields of name, title, company, address, city, state, zip, country, phone, fax, mobile, email, and web, after which they can be searched and sorted easily as with in any other database management program. This is made possible by using advanced OCR (optical character reader) technology. It is, thus, a very effective tool for storing and managing one's contact information. Contrary to what might appear at first thought, a business card reader is still not redundant in this age of smart phones and personal digital assistants. One does not need to look far for the reason; a person's full contact details, as given on such a visiting token, would take much too long to recite and store on a personal digital assistant, even the likes of which are out today.