Everyone knows the drill. You meet someone interesting at a conference. You swap business cards. You put theirs in your wallet with a promise to follow up. A month later the card is in the laundry, or behind a drawer, or gone entirely — and with it, the connection.
We built the business card scanner inside ItemRecover to end that cycle. It is simple, it is fast, and it quietly handles the boring parts so the contact actually gets saved.
Snap a photo. That is the whole workflow.
Open ItemRecover, tap Scan Business Card, point the camera. Our AI reads the card and fills out the contact form for you — name, title, company, phone, email, address, and website, with sensible defaults for the fields it is less sure about.
Review the extracted fields, tweak anything that looks off, save. Under ten seconds per card in practice. It is easier than typing the person's name into your phone, let alone the whole contact.
Multiple cards in one frame
The scanner recognises when there is more than one card in the picture. Lay a stack out flat, snap it once, and we split them into individual contacts automatically. This is the real time-saver at conferences — empty your pocket at the end of the day, spread the cards, one scan, done.
It works on cards in English, Danish, German, and most European scripts. It handles cards with unusual layouts, with logos cropped into the text, with Nordic special characters, with Chinese or Japanese companies alongside Roman names.
Folders, search, and exports
Every scanned card becomes a proper contact inside ItemRecover. You can file them into folders (say, "Madrid Conf 2026" or "Clients"), search by name, company, or any field, and export a CSV whenever you want to move them into your CRM or address book.
If you want to send the contact to your phone's native Contacts app, one tap does it — we generate a vCard you can open and save.
Why we built it
ItemRecover is about keeping things you care about safe and findable — receipts, warranty papers, the serial numbers of expensive gear, the IR Tag on your bike. Business cards sit in the same category: scraps of paper carrying real value that tend to disappear. Treating them like Passports for people closed the loop.
It is included in every plan, free and paid. Snap your next stack and see how much painless the follow-up email becomes.