After watching a tutorial from ScreenCasts Online covering an app called Cardhop (by the developers of Fantastical) I decided to buy it. Not a cheap app - $31 - but it integrates directly with Contacts in iCloud & other associated apps such as PopClip.
Using the latter, you can copy text & have it sent directly to Cardhop as a new contact. Just like Fantastical, it has easy & intuitive parsing of text.