AI OCR: Turn Paper Business Cards Into Digital Contacts in Seconds
2026. 4. 11.7 min read· Cardixn Editorial
You cannot control what other people hand you. You can control what happens to those paper cards the second you get them.
The AI advantage
Old OCR (Optical Character Recognition) was 60% accurate on business cards — usable, barely. Modern multimodal AI, like Gemini 2.5 Flash, is 97% accurate, identifies fields correctly (name vs. company vs. title), and even understands Arabic script and mixed-language cards. Cardixn uses Gemini under the hood to give you the same accuracy as an expensive enterprise SDK, on the free plan.
How to scan
Open the app, tap the floating scan button, point your camera at any paper card, hold still for one second. The name, company, title, phone, email, address and website are extracted, verified against known patterns, and previewed for you to accept. Add a personal note ("met at Web Summit"), tap save, done.
The vault
Every scanned card lives in your Cardixn Vault, searchable by any field, with notes and timestamps. Combined with digital-card capture from other Cardixn users, your vault becomes the single source of truth for every professional relationship you have.
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