Ask HN: Ways to Automatically Scan and Extract Business Cards Information?

4•ksec•10mo ago

I have hundreds if not thousands of business cards. I have been looking for something like a Scanner with Automatic Feeder where I could put dozens of cards and it will scan them. And then somehow extract and manage that information. I have seen a lot of Camera and Card apps but those are too manual and labour intensive. Wondering if anyone on HN has any solutions.

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refferal•10mo ago

Have a look at: https://www.klippa.com/en/dochorizon/. First, use a scanner with an automatic feeder to take pictures of the cards, and let Klippa read from a Google Drive folder, for example. Then, you can create your own workflow to determine what should happen with the results.

_bc2z•10mo ago

Klippa user here. I've been using it for the past year or so and can also recommend OP use it for scanning and extracting data from business cards. The workflow builder is probably what OP is looking for: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TZJxlaOiKo

Just for curiosity, how did you find out about Klippa?

refferal•9mo ago

I've used their OCR API to get structured data from invoices.

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