Business card scanning As the name suggests, a scanner that can scan business cards, with its compact size and powerful identification and management functions, has become the most capable business assistant for many office workers. The business card scanner is composed of a high-speed scanner plus a slightly higher quality OCR (optical character recognition system), coupled with a business card management software.
The most basic components of a business card scanner are: a high-speed portable scanner (generally in formats below A4) and a high-recognition rate OCR recognition software (it is not excluded that some business card scanners use It is used to shoot images: if it is used to shoot images: high-definition camera + OCR recognition software).
Component 1: High-speed scanner/HD camera< /p>
In order to achieve the effect of portability and high speed, CIS scanning element must be used. This scanning element can realize instant high-speed scanning without preheating, and makes the overall size of the scanner smaller. The overall basic resolution can reach more than 600 DPI, which is completely suitable for business people to scan and recognize business cards!
High-definition cameras generally use foreign high-definition macro photography and imaging, and the pixels are generally above 1.3 million pixels. Due to the use of photography and imaging, there may be more media to be scanned. According to the shooting format of the camera: the media can extend from business cards to cards, and even to physical objects!
For example: This is a typical electronic business card box (Using foreign high-definition macro photography and imaging)
Component 2: OCR recognition software
In order to directly convert the scanned image into text, automatic recognition To extract it, you need to use OCR technology to identify it. Nowadays, OCR technology is still available. The more authoritative OCR recognition technologies include Hanwang in China and ABBYY and other internationally renowned OCR recognition companies abroad. Among them, ABBYY’s recognition software can recognize more than 140 recognition languages and characters. !
Component 3: Business card database management
The scanned and identified business cards will be managed in a standardized manner. Can realize: database management, itinerary reminders, business card classification management, etc., and even some scanners, not only business card database management, but also document database, photo database, document database, etc.reason.
The functions of some business card scanners increase with the increase in composition, but always follow: efficiency and convenience as the indicator!
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