METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY COLLECTING THE SAME PERSON BUSINESS CARD DATA ITEMS FROM A PLURALITY OF ELECTRONIC FILES

摘要

The inventive method consists in pre-designating the types of electronic files to be considered, in pre-assigning a software module called an extractor to each type of file to be considered, which is usable for opening and analysing each file of said type and for extracting the business card data items, in analysing each file belonging to said plurality of files by means of the extractor module assigned to said type and in collecting all data items discovered with the aid of said analysis by getting them together into a single business card per person.