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Extract text from scanned business cards

OCR two historical business cards (Colonel Sanders' 1940s card and a Catholic Church Extension Society card) and get the name, title, organization, address and phone lines as text. Point it at your own scanned cards to digitize contacts into a spreadsheet or CRM.

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OCR API - Image to Text, Photo to Text & Receipt OCR
OCR API - Image to Text, Photo to Text & Receipt OCRtidytools/image-to-text-ocr
Image
PDF URL
PDF page
Text
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Text
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Boolean
List
Object

Input

Image or PDF URLs:https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Colonel_Sanders%27_business_card%2C_c._late_1940s.jpg/1280px-Colonel_Sanders%27_business_card%2C_c._late_1940s.jpg+1
Output format:text

Output fields

Image
PDF URL
PDF page
Text
Tables
Receipt fields
Review reasons
Success
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Error type

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The final output is delivered in JSON, CSV, or Excel format, ready to be plugged into your workflow. You can also run the "Extract text from scanned business cards" task via API.

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