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Once the cards are archived, you can convert images into data by indexing
and OCRing them.
Indexing
means that a business card is sorted by a primary
search key - the company name is filled out and checked -, OCR means that the
card’s data is extracted automatically from the image.
OCR stands for two things here:
character recognition
to convert the scanned
image into editable text and field analysis. Optical character recognition (OCR)
allows to encode business cards without the time-consuming task of retyping
them. Think of your last exhibition when you came back with an entire stack of
business cards and it took your secretary two days to encode them!
Cardiris incorporates specialized recognition technology, optimized for tiny
characters, and supports
countries
from all over the world - North and South
American business cards, business cards from the European countries, including
the Eastern-European nations, African, Asian and Oceanic business cards, you
name it! (The “Asian Edition” of Cardiris reads business cards from China, Ja-
pan, Singapore, South-Korea and Taiwan. Business cards from these countries in
English are supported by the “other” editions of the Cardiris software!)
Field analysis
assigns the recognized data to specific database fields. Cardiris
extensively uses a knowledge database, thus acquiring the necessary intelligence
to discriminate the first and last name, a city and its state, a telephone and a fax
number etc.
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