In a method for collecting information of business cards in a mobile communication device including an image capturing unit, a recognition software and a page layout database having a plurality of page layout formats. The image capturing unit captures and converts a traditional business card into an image of a business card, and the recognition software optimizes the image to facilitate recognizing the image. The mobile communication device uses the recognition software and page layout database to analyze and recognize the image of business card according to the page layout database to choose a page layout format from the page layout database that matches the image of business card and, if the page layout format exists, identifies a character from the image of business card, and inputs and stores the character into a business card database in the mobile communication device according to the page layout format, so as to complete the data collection for the traditional business card.