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:

     {
       "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