I.R.I.S. Cardiris 4 - Manual (Page 11)

Cardiris TM 4 – User Guide
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Cardiris allows you to scan business cards, recognize them and
convert them into an address database.
By means of OCR (Optical Character Recognition) the data on
business cards is extracted automatically from the image, converted
into editable text and inserted in the correct database fields through
field analysis.
Cardiris extensively uses a knowledge database, thus acquiring the
necessary intelligence to distinguish between first and last names,
cities and states, telephone and fax numbers etc.
Any data the OCR process cannot assign to a specific field is placed
in the Note field.
The Cardiris field analysis process is also based on the card layout.
Each country has a different “style” of composing business cards:
Americans compose an address differently than the French do,
Dutch ZIP codes and telephone numbers have a different syntax
than their British counterparts etc. This works for 217 countries.