Scan Corporation

The Scan6500 Hand Held Reader

Cognitronics are proud of the fact that we have a business relationship with Scan Corporation (formerly Caere Corporation) that is still going strong and now entering its 25th year.

SCAN Corporation are based in Florida, USA and are the manufacturers of our Hand Held Readers , we have found over the years that these readers are amongst the most versatile data entry tools available. As a low-cost alternative to keyboard data entry, these Optical Character Readers help avoid payment processing delays, data entry errors, and repetitive strain injuries. This all in one unit has the ability to quickly scan machine printed characters and Bar Codes.

Reaching speeds over 200 characters per second, SCAN OCR readers utilise state-of-the-art feature extraction and neural network-based recognition technologies to achieve accuracy rates over 99.9975%, or one character misread in 40,000. However, most customers use our automatic check digit validation to achieve error rate of less than one in 3,000,000 characters. Human's error 1 in 300!