MOBILE APPLICATION FOR INTERACTIVE DIGITAL BUSINESS CARD

The widespread use of printed business card results in a large amount of paper
waste produced annually. In this information age, almost every people around the world
own at least a digital device. In order to solve the problem, the printed business card should
be digitalized. Although there are several digital business card application available in the
market, it does not reduce the use of hardcopy business card effectively. This project is
intended to develop a mobile application for the interactive digital business card. The
interactive feature of this mobile application included the dynamic content of digital
business card, geo-based awareness of business card contacts' company location with the
map function, scanning function to scan and save hardcopy business cards and QR code
generator for a personal business card for easy exchange. Firebase is a cloud-hosted realtime database used to sync data and perform dynamic content. Next, Google MAP API is
used to produce the geo-based awareness of business card contacts' company location with
map function in this project. On the other hand, Google Mobile Vision API which provides
optical character recognition (OCR) technology is used to implement the scanning function
to scan hardcopy business cards and save the information extracted using text recognition.
Lastly, the ZXing API will be used for decoding and generating of barcodes such as QR
code for the digital business card. The project is initialized in Mar 2018 and completed in
Aug 2018. The time use for the completion of the whole project is less than 6 months. All
the objective of the project had been achieved. As a conclusion, the mobile application for
the interactive digital business card is introduced to promote the 'paperless office'.

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1.1 Motivation and Problem Statement - - - - - - - - -  1

1.1.1 Problem Statement- - - - - - - - - -  1

1.1.2 Motivation- - - - - - - - - - - . 2

1.2 Project Scope - - - - - - - - - - - -  3

1.3 Project Objectives- - - - - - - - - -  3

1.4 Impact, Significance and Contribution - - - - - - -  4

1.5 Background Information- - - - - - - - -  5

2.1 Literature Review on Existing Solution- - - - - - -  7

2.1.1 Literature Review on CamCard Free - - - - - - - - . 7

2.1.2 Literature Review on Knowee - - - - - - - - -  9

2.1.3 Literature Review on ABBYY BCR Free Edition- - - - - - . 11

2.1.4 Literature Review on BCard - - - - - - - - - . 14

2.2 Critical Remarks of Previous Works - - - - - - - . 16

2.3 Literature Review on Business Card- - - - - - - -  17

2.4 Literature Review on Barcode - - - - - - - -  17

2.5 Literature Review on Application Programming Interface (API) - - - . 20

2.5.1 Literature Review on Google Mobile Vision API - - - - - - . 20

2.5.2 Literature Review on ZXing API- - - - - - -  22

2.5.3 Literature Review on Google Map API- - - - - - . 23

2.6 Literature Review on Interactive - - - - - - - - - . 25

2.7 Literature Review on Virtual Contact File (VCF or vCard) - - - -  25

3.1 Design Specifications- - - - - - - - - -  27

3.1.1 Methodologies and General Work Procedures- - - - - . 27

3.1.2 Tools to use - - - - - - - - - -  28

3.1.3 System Performance Definition- - - - - - - -  29

3.1.4 Verification Plan - - - - - - - - - -  30

3.2 System Development Life Cycle - - - - - - - - - . 31

3.3 Work Breakdown Structure - - - - - - - - - . 32

3.4 Timeline - - - - - - - - - - - . 33

3.4.1 Timeline for Deliverables and Milestones- - - - -  33

3.4.2 Graphical – Gantt Chart Format - - - - - - - . 34

4.1 System Flowchart- - - - - - - - - . 35

4.2 Entity-Relationship Diagram (ERD)- - - - - - - -  36

4.3 Use Case Diagram- - - - - - - - -  37

4.3.1 Use Case Description of Login - - - - - - - -  38

4.3.2 Use Case Description of Register - - - - - - -  38

4.3.3 Use Case Description of Reset Password - - - - - . 39

4.3.4 Use Case Description of Logout- - - - - - - . 39

4.3.5 Use Case Description of Manage User Profile - - - - - . 40

4.3.6 Use Case Description of Generate QR Code - - - - - - . 41

4.3.7 Use Case Description of Manage Business Card Holder- - -  41

4.3.8 Use Case Description of Manage Group - - - - - -  43

4.3.9 Use Case Description of Manage Friends- - - - - . 44

4.3.10 Use Case Description of Scan Business Card- - - - - . 46

4.3.11 Use case description of Chat Function- - - - - - . 47

4.3.