> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: /help/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Scan business cards > Take a photo of a business card and turn it into a contact. Met someone at an event? Take a photo of their business card with your phone. Kerux's AI reads the name, job title, company, email, phone, website, LinkedIn profile and address, you check them, and the person is saved as a contact. Owners, admins and members can scan cards; viewers don't see the button. **1. Take the photo** Open **Contacts > Database** and tap **Scan business card** (at the top, next to **Import**). Tap **Take a photo** to open your phone's camera, or **Choose photos** to pick one or several photos (on a computer too). One card per photo reads best; several cards side by side in one photo also work (up to 10), each becomes its own card to check. No photo? Click **Type a card by hand**. **2. Check every card** Each card opens as a form with what the AI read. Fix anything that's wrong and fill in what's missing: Kerux says plainly which details the card didn't show (for example, no email). Nothing is saved until you click **Save**. If a card isn't worth keeping, click **Don't save this card**. **3. Choose where they go** Under **Where to save them**, pick a list in **Add to a list** (or **New list**, for example "Expo Madrid 2026") and, if you want, a campaign in **Add to a campaign**. Click **Save** (for example **Save 3 contacts**). Each person shows **Business card** as their source, and their timeline says they were scanned from a card. ![Two scanned cards to check: one read in full, one with a missing email and a possible match](https://mintcdn.com/kerux-f37add41/hxXnH5J2aAMkPLq4/images/business-cards.png?fit=max\&auto=format\&n=hxXnH5J2aAMkPLq4\&q=85\&s=ae0aacb02307d0e24dd2d352de70f3a0) ## People already in your contacts Kerux checks every card against your contacts, the same way imports do: * **Same LinkedIn profile or same email**: it's the same person. Saving adds only what they don't have yet (a phone, a job title, an address...) and never overwrites what they already had. * **Same phone, or same name and company**: it's probably the same person. Kerux shows who, with a link to open them. Tick **It's the same person: update ... instead of adding a new contact** (with their name) to fill in what they don't have yet instead of adding a new contact. ## What gets saved Name, job title, company, email, phone and address go in the contact's own fields (the address in **Address**, used in messages as `{{contact.address}}`). The website goes in the custom field **Website** (`{{contact.custom.website}}`). A card without a LinkedIn profile is saved anyway: email, WhatsApp and other steps work right away, and LinkedIn steps wait until you add the profile to the contact (they continue by themselves then). In a campaign that isn't launched yet, the people wait and start when you launch it. ## Privacy and AI credits The photo is shrunk on your phone, read once by the AI and never stored. Only what you save stays in Kerux, in your workspace. Each photo uses a small part of your team's monthly AI credits (about a quarter of a credit). Text printed on a card is only copied into the form, never followed as an instruction. ## When the AI can't read a card You always get the form, so you can type the card in: > [accordion] We couldn't read this photo > > The photo isn't a business card, or it's too blurry, dark or cut off. Type the details, or take the photo again with the card flat, filling the frame, in good light. > [accordion] Your team used this month's AI credits > > The card wasn't read. Type the details; the credits start again on the 1st of next month. See [Plans and billing](/help/account/billing.md). > [accordion] The AI isn't available right now, or couldn't read it this time > > Type the details, or try the photo again in a minute. > [accordion] Too many photos in one minute > > One person can scan up to 30 photos a minute. Type the details, or try that photo again in a minute. > [accordion] This file isn't a photo we can read > > Use a JPG or PNG photo, or take the photo again. > [accordion] I reloaded the page before saving > > The cards you hadn't saved are kept in that browser tab for 30 minutes (the photos are not). Open **Scan business card** again to find them. ## With the API `POST /v1/business-cards/scan` reads a photo (base64) into draft contacts without saving anything, and `POST /v1/business-cards` saves one reviewed card. See [API](/help/developers/api.md). This documentation is built and hosted on [Mintlify](https://mintlify.com), a developer documentation platform.