Since reporting the bug/crashing of this app several days ago (see below the dotted line), ABBYY has released a fixed version (8.1) today to address the problem. Hence, I have given this app back the 5 stars it deserves.
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I previously gave this app 5 stars, thats how good and useful I found it. But since it updated a couple of days ago to version 8.0 , its been totally UNusable for me - the program will not load up and closes immediately after launching it! I can no longer access any of the business cards I have in it. I checked the ABBYY support site and one suggestion was to close down other programs...closed everything down, and even shut down and then restarted my device, and still have the same problem. I even uninstalled and the reinstalled, and still the problem exists.
Ess Eff Eff about ABBYY Business Card Reader Pro, v8.1