OCR for Business Cards — Extract Contact Info from Photos

After networking events, conferences, or meetings, you end up with a stack of business cards that need to be entered into your contacts or CRM. Typing each one manually is tedious and error-prone — especially with unfamiliar names or international phone formats.

Our OCR tool extracts text from business card photos so you can quickly copy the name, phone, email, company, and address into your phone contacts, CRM, or spreadsheet. All processing runs in your browser for complete privacy.

The average professional collects dozens of business cards per year — salespeople and networkers collect hundreds. Most of those cards end up in a drawer or get thrown away without the contact information being saved. OCR eliminates the barrier: photograph the card, extract the text, save the contact.

For CRM users (Salesforce, HubSpot, etc.), quickly extracting business card data means new contacts get entered into the system while the conversation is still fresh. This dramatically improves follow-up rates compared to manually entering cards days or weeks later.

For best OCR accuracy with business cards, photograph them on a contrasting background with even lighting. Avoid shadows across the text. Cards with unusual fonts, very small text, or colored backgrounds may require manual correction of a few characters.