Corporate News
Landscape has launched the Online Business Card Exchange feature for its business card management app, uMeishi.
■ Background of Feature Addition
With the increase in companies adopting telework as part of work-style reform and in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a rise in situations where face-to-face business card exchange is not possible. Consequently, we decided to implement the Online Business Card Exchange feature, which allows users to register and manage business cards online.
■ About Online Business Card Exchange
Online Business Card Exchange is a feature that enables the automatic registration of business cards from email receipt history (signatures). For example, by simply forwarding an email (containing a signature) received from a client scheduled for a web meeting to a designated address, the signature field can be automatically registered as business card information.
This service utilizes the technology of "Easy Registration*" (Patent No. 5538512). 
Key Points
1. Released ahead of competitors in May 2020 with a proven track record.
2. Can be used simply by forwarding emails, requiring no prior preparation.
3. Available for use regardless of the client's environment.
4. In addition to the existing Easy Registration patent, a patent for this service regarding email signature extraction is currently pending.
* Easy Registration is a feature that allows users to automatically split and reflect necessary information simply by copying and pasting an email signature field.
* Challenges Solved by Online Business Card Exchange
Recently, there has been an increase in online meetings and gatherings, and it is common for meetings to proceed without business cards being exchanged, even when meeting someone for the first time online. This can sometimes hinder the smooth progression of meetings. Furthermore, beyond online meetings, it is often beneficial for business activities to obtain information equivalent to a business card before meeting someone for the first time in a future scheduled meeting. Online Business Card Exchange is the first feature in Japan developed to address these challenges.
* Functional Details of Online Business Card Exchange
Online Business Card Exchange has the capability to identify multiple signature elements related to an email sender from email receipt history. For example, it extracts signature elements—which correspond to business card information—based on signature delimiter strings detected in the email history. It also incorporates logic to determine whether the number of signature elements exceeds a pre-set threshold to identify the signature field. This allows users to obtain information equivalent to a business card prior to online meetings where physical exchange does not occur. Additionally, it enables the acquisition of business card information without the need for physical exchange, even for meetings scheduled for a later date.
About the Business Card Management App uMeishi
uMeishi is a business card management application that leverages LBC, the largest corporate master database in Japan (covering 8.2 million locations) maintained by Landscape. By utilizing LBC as a master dictionary for OCR (Optical Character Recognition) data analysis, the app enables instant data correction and high-precision digitization simply by photographing a business card. Furthermore, it allows for the immediate utilization of business card data by appending attribute information such as industry, annual revenue, and corporate registration numbers.
https://meishisonar.jp/
Landscape will continue to support corporate DX initiatives through data cleansing and the development of system infrastructure utilizing Japan's largest corporate database.
* The uMeishi service was discontinued in August 2025. The currently available business card management application is mSonar, which features significantly enhanced functionality. mSonar
