Business Cards OCR
Automate Contact Data Entry with AI-Powered Business Card OCR – Seamless Integration for Faster, More Accurate CRM Updates
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Instantly capture contact information
Extract names, roles, company names, emails, and phone numbers from any business card.
Works across styles and formats
Handles minimal, heavily designed, multilingual, or non-standard business card layouts with high accuracy.
QR codes and social links
Detect and decode QR codes or printed URLs for LinkedIn, websites, and other online profiles.
Maxime Rihouey
Lead ML Engineer, Spendesk
Designed for software integration:
Built for developers
Simple API, clear docs, test sandbox, and webhooks included.
Scalable from solo users to SaaS
Ideal for personal apps or enterprise platforms processing thousands of cards.
Works from any image
Accepts scans, photos, and uploads from desktop or mobile.
Hosted or on-premise
Use our secure cloud or deploy within your infrastructure.
Mindee helps sales, marketing, and networking tools turn business cards into CRM-ready data:
- Capture contact details in real time
- Eliminate manual data entry
- Sync new leads directly to CRM or email tools
- Support multilingual and international cards
- Integrate into event and networking platforms
- Free up teams from repetitive admin work
Transform your workflow with:
Smart lead entry
Auto-capture new contacts at events, trade shows, and meetings.
CRM and tool integration
Send parsed data directly to Salesforce, HubSpot, Airtable, or your own systems.
Contact enrichment
Combine OCR data with LinkedIn profiles, company info, or scoring systems.
Mobile-friendly
Use on the go—designed for mobile apps and event kiosks.
Mindee’s Business Card OCR helps you close the loop from handshake to follow-up:
- Parse full contact info, including secondary emails and numbers
- Digitize stacks of cards in seconds
- Push data into CRMs, contact books, or apps
- Route based on role, industry, or domain
- Trigger follow-ups, lead scoring, or enrichment flows
- Maintain a searchable, structured contact database
Purpose-trained on business cards
Optimized for the wide range of design styles used on modern cards.
Field-level precision
Recognizes names, emails, numbers, and URLs with high confidence—even on stylized cards.
Fast to deploy
Start extracting contact data in under 10 minutes—no ML expertise required.
Cost-effective at scale
Usage-based pricing and enterprise plans for large lead volumes.
Secure and compliant
Encrypted data, no storage by default—safe for GDPR and enterprise use.
Trusted by lead gen and CRM platforms
Used by apps, event tools, and B2B sales solutions worldwide.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about our intelligent document processing solutions.
How can I test the Business Cards OCR API?
Our Business Cards API is free to use and available to any user having an account on our platform.
To test our APIs, you only have to create a free account using this link, and you'll be able to drag and drop Business Cards in the live interface to see the data extracted in real-time and JSON response. A demo page is also available here.
Is Mindee's Business Cards OCR API free to use?
A free plan is available to everyone and allows you to perform 250 Business Cards processing per month for free. No credit card is required.
Above 250 Business Cards per month, the price per Business Cards processed starts at $0.10 and can decrease to $0.01 per Business Cards depending on the monthly volume. See the pricing page for more information.
Business cards : What are the supported countries?
What are the supported countries?
Our Business Cards OCR API is based on our computer vision technology that doesn't rely on text to extract the Business Cards data, but only on the image. This removes the language limitations.
The OCR was trained with Business Cards from more than 50 countries and works on payslip from all around the world for numeric fields, and all Latin alphabet countries for text ones.
Business cards : How complicated is it to integrate the API?
How complicated is it to integrate the API?
Mindee's API follows HTTP standards in order to allow any developer to integrate the Business Cards OCR API into their applications easily.
We also offer a set of client libraries in all the main back-end languages, and an open-source UI toolkit that helps create front-end features. You can check out our open-source repository or our API documentation for more details.
Business cards : What is the OCR accuracy?
What is the OCR accuracy?
Our Business Cards OCR's accuracy is above 90%, with precision above 95% for most of the fields. These performances are computed on a data set including more than 50 countries.
Testing our OCR API is free, all you need is an account. Feel free to drop Business Cards in the live interface to see the OCR performance on your data.
Business cards : What's the average API response time?
What's the average API response time?
The processing time is around 1.3 seconds per page for pdfs and 0.9 seconds for a Business Cards image.
We often improve this processing time and our target is below 500ms. Our goal is to make sure you can create real-time user experiences in your application.
Business cards : Does the OCR work on low-quality images?
Does the OCR work on low-quality images?
Yes, the OCR was trained on a lot of Business Cards from a wide variety of layouts and image quality and learned to process the most complex ones.
We also use data augmentation to make sure that no blur or ink stains prevent the OCR from reading the data as long as it's readable.
Do you offer technical support?
We have a Slack community where you can ask your questions and chat with our team.
We don't do the integration in your infrastructure ourselves but we can set up a custom level of support on a per-case basis if needed.