LinkedIn has announced a new partnership with Evernote (News - Alert) that lets users scan business cards into their devices for later retrieval.

“Business cards are one of the many ways people initiate professional relationships, so it is important to us that our members can quickly and easily bring these connections to LinkedIn (News - Alert),” Bob Rosin, LinkedIn vice president of development, wrote in an official company blog post. “So today LinkedIn is deepening our partnership with Evernote. LinkedIn members can scan a business card using Evernote’s mobile app and then directly connect with this contact on LinkedIn to maintain the new relationship.”

Users can snap pictures of business cards into their devices, and the card will show up as a note in Evernote. Users will be able to see users’ photos, job titles, and company information gleaned from LinkedIn right inside of Evernote. They will also be able to tag (News - Alert) the location where they scanned the card and add comments.

LinkedIn has been offering a similar service with its CardMunch app that it acquired in 2011, but LinkedIn will be discontinuing CardMunch in July. Existing members can transfer their CardMunch data to Evernote and get two free years of business card scanning. Users can also export their CardMunch data in a download before the deadline of July 11. LinkedIn users who are not currently using CardMunch will get a free year of card scanning on Evernote.

Rosin said that the partnership with Evernote and the shuttering of CardMunch was part of the company’s attempts to focus on fewer things and doing them better.

Evernote has become popular as it attempts to extend its users’ memories. Evernote has been touting premium services to heavy users, and managing business contacts looks promising. Despite the ubiquity of smartphones, paper business cards are still the easiest way to exchange contact information. Apps like Evernote are a good way to combine the best of the virtual and physical worlds by storing information easily.