All of the major smartphone platforms are now supported by ABBYY’s Business Card Reader, which has now been launched for Android.

The application enables users to transfer contact information from paper business cards into their Android phone’s address book. It can also search for additional information about new contacts across popular social networks and Google Maps.

It is available in a free, lite version that will allow users to capture data on a business card, preview the results on a phone’s display, and search for additional information on Facebook. The lite version will transfer the contact’s first name, last name and first detected phone number. The rest of contact data can be saved into the address book by upgrading to the full version.

The software simplifies the checking of captured data by highlighting uncertain characters in the resulting text and displaying the original photo for visual comparison.