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.

⚙️ How it works

Form Submission
Upload a business card image (.jpg, .png, or .jpeg) through an n8n form.
Optionally select a category (e.g., Partner, Client, Vendor).

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": "abc@dc.com", "Company": "TOV", "Address": "6F, Donga Building, 212, Yeoksam-ro, Gangnam-gu, Seoul", "Website": "www.tov.com" }

JSON Parsing & Cleanup
The text response from Gemini is cleaned and parsed into a valid JSON object using a Code node.

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.

🧠 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

📦 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 |

🧰 Requirements
A connected Google Gemini (PaLM) API credential
A Notion integration with edit access to your database
🚀 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

💡 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.

🧾 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 |