So im looking for either a hardware or software solution for a business card reader, which needs to integrate into some custom software. I've done a bit of research and it seems like it comes down to:
Hardware Scanner: Can export to CSV/Excel and maybe have an upload function scrape from that into our Application (Any suggestions? I've seen some readers with the Abbyy SDK I believe)
Cloud Service: This doesn't seem like a great idea personally, but it's there. (People actually "reading" the cards).
Software Solution: Using an SDK or API. I'd like one with some sort of OCR API that is pretty accurate and I can receive maybe either a CSV back or JSON or something similar. I've seen ABBYY has their own API which works with a lot of programming languages, but im open to suggestions! (Ruby/Javascript is ideal as far as languages since this is a Web Application)
The software solution is preferred...but since they are business cards we would still need to scan them so...Also most of the API solutions appear to be cloud solutions (it'd be nice if there was something that wouldn't "go down" with a loss of internet).