Plustek launches Plustek OptiCard 821 in the Indian market. OptiCard 821 is the best multi purpose scanner for scanning multiple cards and photo documents, which could include normal A6 business cards, credit cards, thick plastic embossed cards, checks, insurance cards, social security cards, Identity cards and even photographs.

OptiCard 821 is really a utility scanner for every organization – be it small or big. It being very light weight and Small , OptiCard 821 is handy to be used in outdoor locations – especially in the road shows, events and expositions etc. The beauty is that it does not take time for worming up and scans in full colour mode.

OptiCard 821 comes bundled with the BCR Business Card Reader which provides automatic recognition of your company name, job title, person's name, address, telephone and fax number as shown on the business cards. Users have the choice of saving the files to Excel or sending them to Outlook.

In case one wants to search the name from the host of numbers and names, he can easily find them by just searching the BCR database. He can even send them mails from the database directly and if wishes, he can shave or synchronise with a host of mail messaging options including WinCE PDA, Palm, Outlook Express, Microsoft Outlook Express, Excel, Lotus Notes, CSV and VCard files.

The OptiCard 821 features a scanning area of 105mm x 148mm and supports a maximum of 500mm through TWAIN. The inbuilt image software enables users to convert scanned documents into “Searchable PDF” and various types of image formats.

Additionally with ABBYY FineReader 6.0 Sprint Plus software, the card recognises up to 177 languages and can scan multi-page documents at a time.

Even though it is multifunctional card scanner but any other Plustek card scanner it is power cord free and pretty fast also.

Dr. Karen Ku, VP, Plustek, says, “OptiCard 821 is a utility product not only for the front office applications but also very useful for the core applications. Today, every office is becoming paper less. Even during the admission or any online transaction, no body is asking for paper documents. Even though the paper documents are given it digital and stored in a repository. So in this changing scenario, all consumer facing organizations - be it retail outlets of mobile phones, utility bill payment centres, service centres etc.- should have this scanner because of its ease of usage and high capability.”

She adds, “In the utility bill payment centre, the customer facing executive accepts payments either in cash or check along with filled up forms supporting the payment. If the person has the OptiCard 821, s/he can scan the document or even the check and put it in to the repository in digital mode. It can optimise the productivity of the people in the organization and the authorities can go through the repository and update the profiles of the consumers.

Price and availability: Available in one year warranty, Plustek OptiCard 821 is priced at Rs /4000 and available through distributor.