Business Card to vCard Scanner
Photograph a business card and get a ready-to-import contact. AI reads the name, title, company, phone numbers, emails and address, then exports a clean .vcf, .xlsx or .csv file that works with every phone, spreadsheet and CRM.
Scan → Clean → Convert
1. Scan
Photograph one card or a whole stack. Every card becomes a structured contact you can edit before it goes anywhere.
2. Clean
Send the results straight to the contact cleanup tool to merge them with an existing address book and remove duplicates.
3. Convert
Export as vCard 2.1, 3.0 or 4.0, as an Excel workbook, or as CSV — then feed it into any of the converters on this site.
Every Script
Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Arabic, Hebrew, Thai, Cyrillic and Greek cards are transcribed in their original characters, with any printed romanization kept alongside.
Bulk Scanning
Select an entire conference stack at once. Cards are read in batches and collected into a single list you can export in one file.
Review Before Export
Every card gets a legibility score, and anything the scanner could not read is flagged so you can fix it before the contact reaches your phone.
Correct vCard Output
Proper CRLF line endings, escaped values, folded long lines and UTF-8 handling — the same vCard engine every converter on this site uses.
No Account Needed
No signup, no cloud sync, no app install. Scan a card and download the contact in the same browser tab.
Built for Spreadsheets
Export a real .xlsx workbook with columns already sized to fit, or a UTF-8 CSV with a byte-order mark so Excel opens non-Latin names correctly the first time.
How Your Photos Are Handled
Most tools on VCFConverter run entirely in your browser and never send anything anywhere. Card scanning is the exception, and we would rather be blunt about it than bury it.
- Your browser resizes the photo first. Images are scaled down and re-encoded locally, so the original full-resolution file never leaves your device.
- The resized image goes to Anthropic's Claude API for a single reading, and comes back as structured text.
- We do not store your images or the extracted contacts. Nothing is written to a database, and there is no account to sync to.
- Everything after the scan is local again. Editing, deduplicating, merging and exporting all happen in your browser.
Perfect For
🎪 Conferences & Trade Shows
Come home with a stack of cards and turn them into a single import file before you have unpacked.
💼 Sales & Business Development
Get new leads into your CRM the same day, in whatever format it accepts, without retyping.
🧑💻 Recruiting
Capture candidate and hiring-manager details at career fairs and export them as a clean CSV for your ATS.
🗂️ Digitizing an Old Rolodex
Work through a card file a handful at a time and build a modern address book you can actually search.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I scan several cards at once?
Yes. Select as many photos as you like — they are processed in batches and collected into one list. If a single photo shows several cards laid out together, each one becomes its own contact.
Does it work with non-English cards?
Yes. Values are transcribed in the script they are printed in, including Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Arabic, Hebrew, Thai, Cyrillic and Greek. When a card prints both a local-script name and a romanization, both are kept — the romanization lands in the nickname field.
What if it reads something wrong?
Every extracted contact is editable before export, and each card carries a legibility score plus a list of fields that were visible but unreadable. The scanner is instructed never to guess — a field it cannot read is left blank rather than invented.
Which file formats can I export?
vCard 2.1, 3.0 and 4.0 (.vcf), Excel (.xlsx) and CSV. The spreadsheet exports size their columns to the busiest card, so a contact with three phone numbers keeps all three. From there you can use any converter on this site to reach JSON, XML, TSV, PDF or a QR code.
How many scans do I get?
Free accounts get a monthly allowance of card scans. Premium removes the cap, which is what makes scanning a whole conference stack practical.
What makes a good photo?
Fill the frame with the card, avoid glare from overhead lights, and keep it roughly square to the camera. Your browser downscales the image before upload, so there is no benefit to a very high-resolution shot.
Related Tools
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