- 996 Wood Duck Avenue
- Santa Clara, California 95051, USA
- Tel: (408) 243 6922 Fax:(408) 243 6980
Company Profile
CardReader Inc., dba Electronic Document Technology is the developer of leading edge Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and business card reading technologies and applications. Established in 1992 as a development center for OCR technology, the company has developed and released several versions of its OCR and Business Card Reading products to the market.
EDT sells its products direct as well as through retail and OEM channels. OEM licensing of its OCR, Card Reader and image processing technology is available to third party developers.
Core Products
BizCardReader - A business card reader application that scans, reads and stores business cards into the computer. It saves a scanned image of the card and automatically reads the card contents into a database. The user can view and retrieve any card easily, and print mailing labels and contact information from the database.
WinOCR - A multilingual OCR software package that recognizes English and nine other European languages. It is a full featured OCR package that includes scanning from any TWAIN compliant scanner, automatic zoning, dictionary and spell-checking capabilities. The product uses EDT's proprietary OCR engine which is rated amongst the top in speed and accuracy.
OCR Developer's Toolkit - This toolkit enables third party software developers to use EDT's Optical Character Recognition engine in their applications. It contains a collection of libraries on the Windows 95/98/NT/2000 platforms which enable an application to perform OCR and manipulate images.
Business Card Reader Toolkit - This toolkit enables software developers to use EDT's business card reading technology to read card images, and automatically extract field information such as name, company, title and address fields.