Digitize Business Cards to Notion Database with Gemini Vision OCR

🧩 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

1. Form Submission

   • Upload a business card image (.jpg, .png, or .jpeg) through an n8n form.
   • Optionally select a category (e.g., Partner, Client, Vendor).

2. 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:

          {
     

     "Name": "Jung Hyun Park", "Position": "Head of Development", "Phone": "021231234", "Mobile": "0101231234", "Email": "[email protected]", "Company": "TOV", "Address": "6F, Donga Building, 212, Yeoksam-ro, Gangnam-gu, Seoul", "Website": "www.tov.com" }

3. JSON Parsing & Cleanup

   • The text response from Gemini is cleaned and parsed into a valid JSON object using a Code node.

4. 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

🧰 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.

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