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I am looking for a technology to scan a business card and read the content on it.  then save the data into database. Do anyone has idea which product I need use?

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Modern scanners have OCR ( optical character recognition) which do this.
You only need to select OCR in your scanners settings.
If the scan was not done with OCR, then there are other options:

If PDF you can use a free online service called:
"CONVERT SCANNED PDF TO WORD"
Link:
http://www.onlineocr.net/

Using Microsoft Word you can Turn a Scanned Document Into a Microsoft Word Document:
Link:
http://www.wikihow.com/Turn-a-Scanned-Document-Into-Microsoft-Word-Document
If you want to do it via smart phone then see:
"7 business card apps for smartphones: Scan 'em and store 'em"
Link:
http://www.computerworld.com/article/2486045/mobile-apps-7-business-card-apps-for-smartphones-scan-em-and-store-em.html
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If I want to save the data to my table after the content of business card has been read, which one you think will be bet to fit?
Thanks for all the inputs.
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"If I want to save the data to my table after the content of business card has been read, which one you think will be bet to fit?"

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"save the data to my table"

Please clarify what this means?

PC or android or iphone or Blackberry?
I have supplied all asked methods...
Mac also uses OCR as does Windows.

Please be clear in what you want to get further advice