AI Business Card Scanner
Photograph a business card and let LM Mini extract name, title, company, email, and phone — then add to Contacts or copy as vCard text.
One-tap install
Build the shortcut below (2 minutes), then share to iCloud from Shortcuts.app to enable one-tap install for others. Update website/data/shortcuts.json with your icloudUrl and re-run this generator.
Siri Phrase
"Hey Siri, scan this business card"
Run once after installing, then Siri learns this phrase.
How the shortcut works
- Take a photo of the business card or pick from camera roll.
- Extract Text from Image runs OCR.
- LM Mini parses structured contact fields from the raw text.
- Add to Contacts or copy formatted details.
Key features
- Structured JSON-style output: name, title, company, email, phone
- Fully on-device — networking contacts stay private
- Works at conferences without cloud OCR APIs
- Chain with Create Contact action in Shortcuts
Recommended models
Qwen 3 4B or Llama 3.2 3B for field extraction
Qwen 3 8B (MLX) for messy or multilingual cards
Tune temperature (0.7) and top-p (0.9) in LM Mini → Settings → Model Parameters. See the full on-device model catalog.
Build it in 60 seconds
- Take Photo or Select Photo.
- Extract Text from Image.
- Ask LM Mini: Parse this business card text into fields: Full Name, Job Title, Company, Email, Phone, Website. Output as plain lines. Text:
- Create Contact or Copy to Clipboard.
URL scheme (power users)
Add an Open URLs action in Shortcuts.app:
lmmini://shortcut/ask?prompt=Parse%20business%20card&onDevice=1Need LM Mini? Free on iOS and Android — on-device GGUF/MLX, LM Studio Connect, voice, and more.
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