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.
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## ⚙️ 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:
```json
{
"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.
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## 🧠 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
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## 📦 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` |
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## 🧰 Requirements
- A connected **Google Gemini (PaLM)** API credential
- A **Notion integration** with edit access to your database
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## 🚀 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
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## 💡 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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## 🧾 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 |
