Method for automatically collecting business card data relating to a single person, from a plurality of electronic files

摘要

The method involves pre-designating types of electronic files to be considered and pre-assigning a software extractor module to each type of file to be considered, for opening and analyzing the files to be considered in order to extract business card data items e.g. name. Each file is analyzed by using files with the extractor module assigned to the type. All data items discovered by using the analysis are collected by comparing a set of fields in one business card with a set of values of fields in another business card and by getting them together into a single business card per person. An independent claim is also included for a storage unit on which a program is stored comprising instructions for performing steps of a data item collecting method.