Nokia Multiscanner is a free optical character recognition (OCR) application included on the new Nokia E71 and Nokia E66 that provides business card reading and document scanning capabilities on your smartphone.

When someone gives you a business card you can easily convert business card details and save them to your address book. You simply take a photo and then Nokia Multiscanner converts the text from the business card into electronic data using OCR technology - recognizing name, company, address, mobile number and other fields.

The same process can also be used to convert printed documents – for example, if you want to save the address of a restaurant that you’ve just read about in a magazine, you can easily capture the address from the magazine using Nokia Multiscanner and then save it as a note or send it to a friend by e-mail or text message.

In future, you will also be able to translate foreign languages in images to your chosen language. It will use language libraries to find the equivalent word in your language. Language libraries are stored in the device and can be updated over the air (OTA) directly to the mobile. Nokia’s working prototypes are already capable of translating text between 52 languages.

A complete review with screenshots can be found at Symbian-Lifelog. You can download the extracted version of Nokia Multiscanner for S60 3rd Edition here.