Business card reader software and business card scanner software
Business card reader is irreplaceable instruments in the case, when you need to scan a business card quickly and high-quality. There is a great number of models of business card readers, every model has the descriptions, some scans better, some worse, but all of them send the scanning result to software which is engaged in recognition of information from a business card.
Let you have the best business card reader in the world, with the highest scanning speed and the highest dpi. But if software will not be able to recognize information correctly, you don't get a great deal out of such scanner.
The manufacturers of business card readers sell good and not so good software for information recognition from business cards. Let us consider a few out of them.
Cardiris 4 Pro. Cardiris software is developed by company I.R.I.S, a leader in business card scanning area, possesses an easy to use interface. Software is able to manage the enormous amount of business cards, and also to search and manage contact information instantly. Cardiris is able to export your contacts in other managers of contacts such as Outlook, Outlook Express, ACT!, Palm OS, Lotus Notes etc, or to save contact information in the database. Software is consonant with the operating systems Windows and Mac OS.
NeatWorks. NeatWorks software uses technologists of syntactic analysis and front-rank optical recognition, to read information from receipts, visiting-cards and documents. NeatWorks software is capable to identify the type of scanned document, whether it is business card or receipt, and to extract necessary information such as the name of supplier, date, bag, even type of payment. Scanned information is saved in a digital depository on which you can make a search, to manage them or to export in other appendixes.
ABBYY Business Card Reader. In the appendix ABBYY BCR compact technology is used for the mobile devices ABBYY Mobile OCR SDK, which, in its term, is built on technology of FineReader, therefore it provides high quality and exactness, made with the help of camera of mobile device. ABBYY BCR automatically determines on the picture of business card the location of margins: the name, last name, organization, position, telephones (mobile, work, fax), e-mail, site address, actual address, extracts from them information and passes in the proper fields of telephone address book.
Scan2Contacts. Scan2Contacts software is the unique wholly integrated additional system of business cards scanning for the manager of contacts Microsoft Outlook. Portable business card scanner scans business cards quickly and automatically saves all text information together with appearance of business card in MS Outlook 2000/XP/ 2003/2007 or general folder MS Exchange Server. After replacement, Scan2Contacts software reads information from a business card in a few seconds. With the help of OCR technology and improved facilities of images processing inserts information of texts in the proper fields of contact Outlook automatically.
CardScan. Together with business card scanner, this combination includes the latest software for business card recognition. Put a business card in scanner and software quickly sorts information in the correct fields in a database. CardScan software is synchronized with your PalmPilot or Palm III and any Windows CE device. CardScan - rapid, simple and, due to the improved technology AccuCard, it is the most exact business card scanner at the market today!