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🧩 Summary Easily digitize and organize your business cards! This workflow allows you to upload a business card image, automatically extract contact information using Google Gemini’s OCR & vision model, and save the structured data into a Notion database — no manual typing required. Perfect for teams or individuals who want to centralize client contact info in Notion after networking events or meetings. --- ⚙️ How it works Form Submission Upload a business card image (.jpg, .png, or .jpeg) through an n8n form. Optionally select a category (e.g., Partner, Client, Vendor). AI-Powered OCR (Google Gemini) The uploaded image is sent to Google Gemini Vision for intelligent text recognition and entity extraction. Gemini returns structured text data such as: json { "Name": "Jung Hyun Park", "Position": "Head of Development", "Phone": "021231234", "Mobile": "0101231234", "Email": "abc@dc.com", "Company": "TOV", "Address": "6F, Donga Building, 212, Yeoksam-ro, Gangnam-gu, Seoul", "Website": "www.tov.com" } JSON Parsing & Cleanup The text response from Gemini is cleaned and parsed into a valid JSON object using a Code node. Save to Notion The parsed data is automatically inserted into your Notion database (Customer Business Cards). Fields such as Name, Email, Phone, Address, and Company are mapped to Notion properties. --- 🧠 Used Nodes Form Trigger – Captures uploaded business card and category input Google Gemini (Vision) – Extracts contact details from the image Code – Parses Gemini’s output into structured JSON Notion – Saves extracted contact info to your Notion database --- 📦 Integrations | Service | Purpose | Node Type | |----------|----------|-----------| | Google Gemini (PaLM) | Image-to-text extraction (OCR + structured entity parsing) | @n8n/n8n-nodes-langchain.googleGemini | | Notion | Contact data storage | n8n-nodes-base.notion | --- 🧰 Requirements A connected Google Gemini (PaLM) API credential A Notion integration with edit access to your database --- 🚀 Example Use Cases Digitize stacks of collected business cards after a conference Auto-save new partner contacts to your CRM database in Notion Build a searchable Notion-based contact directory Combine with Notion filters or rollups to manage client relationships --- 💡 Tips You can easily extend this workflow by adding an email notification node to confirm successful uploads. For multilingual cards, Gemini Vision handles mixed-language text recognition well. Adjust Gemini model (gemini-1.5-flash or gemini-1.5-pro) based on your accuracy vs. speed needs. --- 🧾 Template Metadata | Field | Value | |-------|--------| | Category | AI + Notion + OCR | | Difficulty | Beginner–Intermediate | | Trigger Type | Form Submission | | Use Case | Automate business card digitization | | Works with | Google Gemini, Notion |