Hotcard is a pioneer in the development of compact sized, multilingual (English, Chinese, Japanese, German, French,

Italian, Spanish and Portuguese) and high accuracy OCR, business card recognition, ScanPen input recognition

technology and Scan/Camera Input applications for PC, scanners, handheld devices, digital camera and education toy.

We are a spin-off from the largest IT research lab in South Asia --- LIT, with Technology and Research Board of

Singapore Agency for Science, (A-Star) as one of our major shareholder. We aim to give people a brand new and

efficient way to solve their input bottleneck problems of handheld devices.

Prior to Singapore-based Hotcard Technology Pte Ltd's establishment on Dec 2000, the principals of the company have

spent over 9 years researching compact sized multilingual Optical Character Recognition core technology and its

related technical application, which includes:

* Compact sized, multilingual, high accuracy OCR
Business Card Recognition(BCR) for Windows and Pocket PC/WinCE
* ScanPen for Scan-Text-Input, Scan-Translate, Scan-Pronounce and Scan-Transfer
*Image strip stitching and Scan Tech for Fax and handheld products