Turn business card photos into contacts in Google Sheets

Upload a photo of a business card and AI extracts the name, role, email, and phone straight into Google Sheets.

How the work actually flows

A straight line. Runs once per each business card submitted.

Pattern: Sequence (1) ยท Multiple Instances with a priori Design-Time Knowledge (13)

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Starts itRuns once per itemA record or sheetResultPayoff
Build size
Advanced

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

Business functions
AI Agents & Autonomous SystemsDocument Processing & OCRSpreadsheet & Database OpsSurvey & Feedback
Connects
Google GeminiGoogle Sheets

The problem it solves

After a conference you're stuck typing a stack of business cards into a spreadsheet one by one, and half the formatting ends up inconsistent anyway. Cards get lost before you ever get around to entering them.

Who it fits

Sales reps, event teams, or founders who collect business cards at conferences and networking events.

How it works

  1. You submit a business card photo through a simple upload form
  2. AI reads the image and extracts name, role, email, phone, and website
  3. Multiple cards are processed one after another automatically
  4. Each contact is added as a new row in Google Sheets
What you get

Contacts entered without retyping business cards

Business cards from your next event turn into organized contact records automatically, with names, roles, emails, and phone numbers ready in your spreadsheet.

What you get

A Google Sheet of contact details automatically filled in from your business card photos.

What you need

A Google Workspace account and a Google Gemini API key.

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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