Business cards are one of richest source of information and represents individuals, firms or even heads of states. Turn the various information in the visiting cards into useful data in a second and act on the gleaned information instead spending man hours and money on amassing such details.

When To Use The Activity

Use this activity to extract important contact information like the first name, last name, company name, etc., from business cards that are printed in English.

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How To Use The Activity

(1)Drag  and drop an AnalyzeBusinessCards activity from the AzureAIFormRecognizer package into the (2) AzureAIScope drop zone. Provide the (3) Input Image Path if File is chosen in the (4) Input Receipt Type field property. Fill appropriate details in all fields in the property window. Refer (Technical Reference). Output field supports string variable type while Result field supports Boolean variable type. Create variables accordingly. 

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(1) Drag and drop a WriteLog activity from the NotificationAutomation package. (2) Provide the InputString and the (3) LogLevel. (4) Execute to extract the text from the input Business card. (5) Output will return the details available in the Business card along with the confidence scores.

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Let us see how to proceed when we select URL as the Input Type. All other steps in the prebuilt activities are the same excepting for selecting the URL from the Input Type field property.

(1) Drag and drop an AnalyzeBusinessCards activity from the AzureAIFormRecognizer package into the AzureAIScope drop zone. Provide the (2) Input Image URL if URL is chosen in the (3) Input Receipt Type field property. Fill appropriate details in all fields in the property window. Refer (Technical reference) Output field supports string variable type while Result field supports Boolean variable type. Create variables accordingly. (4) Drag and drop a WriteLog activity from the NotificationAutomation package. (5) Provide the InputString and the (6) LogLevel.

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(1) Execute to extract the information from the input Business card. (2) Output will return the details available in the Business card along with the confidence scores. There will be no difference in the output when File as well as URL is chosen when the input business card is the same.

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Technical Reference

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