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At this stage, Cardiris takes the layout of a business card into account. Each
country has a different “ style ” of composing business cards, Americans com-
pose an address differently than the French do etc. In this way, Cardiris can
process correctly business cards of all designs and countries: business cards with
an American or European look, vertical cards as well as horizontal cards etc.
The recognition accuracy depends on the printing quality, whether or not a too
stylized font or “exotic” layout has been used etc. Cutting and pasting is available
to edit and correct the recognized data, but so are “
drag-and-drop ” operations
for maximal ease of use. To correct small errors, you can indeed draw a frame
around the information and drag the frame to a database field - say, the city: the
OCR gets done “ on the fly ”.
Interestingly, the scanning, indexing and recognition are separate phases. In-
dexing and OCR can be deferred, performed later on at any moment. Sales
executives at an info desk or on the company booth at a trade show, secretaries
at a reception desk may be too busy to perform the complete cycle of indexing
and OCRing business cards, but surely they can quickly scan the business card of
their visitors... When they do, Cardiris will keep trace of every single contact
they come across with a minimal effort.
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