Extract contact details from business card photos automatically

Snaps or uploads a business card photo and instantly saves clean contact info to your spreadsheet.

How the work actually flows

It branches. Exactly one path is taken.

Pattern: Exclusive Choice (4)

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Starts itA stepAn outside serviceA record or sheetOne path onlyResultPayoff
Build size
Advanced

A larger build with multiple systems, AI reasoning, and custom rules.

Business functions
AI Agents & Autonomous SystemsMessaging & NotificationsDocument Processing & OCRSpreadsheet & Database OpsFile & Cloud Storage
Connects
TelegramGoogle DriveGoogle SheetsOpenAI

The problem it solves

You leave conferences and meetings with a stack of business cards that never make it into your contact list. Typing each one in by hand is tedious, so most cards end up forgotten in a drawer, and the lead is lost.

Who it fits

Sales reps, event organizers, or anyone who collects business cards and needs them in a real contact list.

How it works

  1. You send a photo of a business card by chat or drop it into a Google Drive folder
  2. The system reads the text off the card
  3. AI sorts that text into name, phone, email, company, and social fields
  4. The details are added as a new row in your Google Sheet
  5. If you sent it by chat, you get the extracted details sent right back to you
What you get

Business cards turned into contacts in a blink

Snap a photo of a business card and its contact details land cleanly in your spreadsheet.

What you get

A growing Google Sheets contact database built from photographed business cards.

What you need

A Google account with Drive and Sheets, an OpenAI API key, and a Telegram bot if you want chat-based uploads.

We can build this. But should you?

The hard question is not how to build it. It is whether this is the right thing to build first.

That is what a Fractional Chief AI Officer figures out with you, before anyone writes a line of code.

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