Scan business cards into a sheet you can search
Point the camera and it fires on its own, card after card. You get a single HTML file with the photos, the details and your notes — sortable, searchable, and yours alone.
- Runs entirely in your browser
- Works offline
- No upload
- No sign-up
- No watermark
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How it works
- Start the camera and hold a card still in front of it — the outline turns green and the shot is taken for you. Turn on “Front and back” to capture both sides of each card.
- The text is read in the background while you keep scanning. Check the fields, fix anything that came out wrong and write your notes under the card.
- Download the sheet: one HTML file with everything inside. Next time, drop that file back in first and the new cards are added to it.
Why nothing is uploaded
Every operation on this page is done by code running inside your browser tab, using the same engine that renders web pages. The file is read from disk into your tab’s memory, transformed there, and written back out as a download. It is never sent anywhere — not to us, not to a third party.
Verify it yourself
- Open your browser’s developer tools (F12) and select the Network tab.
- Load your file and run the tool.
- The only requests you will see fetch the tool’s own code — and, for a few heavy tools, their open-source engine from a public CDN — plus one small page-view ping to loreatec.jp (page address and title, nothing more). None of them carry your file.
Frequently asked questions
Do the photos leave my phone?
No. The camera frames are drawn into this page, the text recognition runs here too, and the sheet is written by your own browser. Nothing is uploaded, which is the whole difference between this and the card-scanning apps that file your contacts on someone else’s server.
Does it read Japanese?
Yes, horizontal Japanese and English, and it recognises the usual company forms and the 〒 postcode. Text set vertically down the card — common for names on meishi — is beyond the local engine: the phone, fax, email and address still come out, and you type the name in. Every field is editable anyway.
What happens if I upload the file again?
Cards are matched by an identifier stored inside the file. Anything missing is added, anything already there keeps the more recent version of each field, and notes are never overwritten — if both copies changed, both are kept. An import can only add, never delete.
How big does the sheet get?
Around 35 KB per side for an ordinary printed card, so a few hundred cards land in the tens of megabytes. The estimated size is shown next to the download button, and you can switch to smaller photos if you are collecting a lot.
How does it find the card?
A small learned model — the same approach phone scanner apps use — looks at the picture and predicts where the four corners are; a classic edge finder double-checks it when the shape it sees could not be a card. The card is then straightened to its real proportions (Japanese 91×55, European 85×55 or US 3.5×2 inches) and kept in its real colours. If nothing card-shaped is found, the whole photo is kept rather than cropping something wrong.
Why does it ask me to move closer?
Because the text is read from the pixels of the card. A card that fills only a small part of the frame leaves the small print a few pixels tall, and Japanese text in particular becomes unreadable. On phones that allow it, each shot is a full-resolution photo from the camera rather than a frame of the preview video; the resolution in use is shown under the viewfinder.