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How to Scan a Business Card Straight Into Your Phone Contacts

By DocFila Team · May 1, 2026 · 4 min read

You meet someone at a conference, they hand you a card — three days later it's lost in a coat pocket. DocFila's business-card scanner extracts name, title, company, phone, email, address, and website with one tap, then saves it directly to your phone contacts (and CRM if you want).

Scan a business card

1. Open DocFila → Scan → Business Card.
2. Snap the front. AI extracts every field.
3. Optional: snap the back for double-sided cards.
4. Review the extracted fields, correct anything off, then tap Save Contact.
5. The contact is added to iOS / Android Contacts and (optionally) synced to Google, Outlook, or Salesforce.

Batch scan at conferences

After a busy event, dump all the cards on a table and use Batch mode — scan 30 cards in 90 seconds, review and save in bulk later.

Why field extraction beats raw photos

Many "scanner" apps just save a JPG of the card. DocFila's vision model identifies this is the email, this is the phone, this is the title and structures the data — so it's instantly searchable, exportable as vCard / CSV, and CRM-ready.

Replace your own paper card

While you're at it, build your own digital business card with QR + NFC sharing — no printing, no waste, infinite redesigns.

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