Writing a business card reader can be tedious. I first tried using Tesseract, an open-source Optical Character Recognition (OCR) engine. But besides OCR, you still need to segment the images, do optical character recognition (OCR) then identify text patterns for names, title, phones, emails, etc and extract them. Quite a lot of work if you have a big stack of business cards to go through.
But thankfully, technology and especially AI has come a long way and we can use widely available AI engines such as OpenAI’s to make the job easier… unbelievably easier. In this post, we’ll go through the whole thing from start to finish.
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