Does it read Chinese business cards?

Yes. The scanner returns both the romanised or English version of each field and the original characters alongside it, so a card printed only in Chinese still produces a usable English contact plus the native text for your records.

Where does the image go?

The photo is sent to Anthropic Claude for the read and is not stored by Sourzi. We keep the structured result on your screen for the session only; close the tab and it is gone. Download the vCard if you want to keep it.

Very accurate on a clean, well-lit, straight-on photo. A creased card, glare, or a stylised logo font can drop a digit or a character, which is why the original image stays on screen beside the result so you can verify the phone and email before you save the contact.

One card per image, up to about 5 MB. For a stack of cards from a trade fair, scan them one at a time; each read is quick.

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Business card scanner

Turn the stack of cards from the factory floor into saved contacts before you land back home.

Sample read

This is the kind of structured result the scanner returns from a single Chinese-card photo.

Name: Li Wei (李伟)
Title: Export Sales Manager
Company: Shandong Haoyuan Chemical Co., Ltd (山东浩源化工有限公司)
Phone: +86 138 0000 0000
Email: liwei@haoyuanchem.com
WeChat: liwei_haoyuan

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Subscribe to Sourzi Pro to scan your supplier cards

Pro at USD 59 per month unlocks the business card scanner, alongside the sanctions screener, the FX converter, the landed-cost calculator, and the rest of the Pro lookup catalogue.

Pro is for the procurement team that comes home from a sourcing trip with a stack of cards and wants them in the CRM by Monday, not retyped by hand. Cancel anytime from /account.

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Worked example: twenty cards from a Shandong sourcing trip

The booking. You spend three days visiting solvent and pigment factories around Zibo and come home with a rubber band around twenty business cards. Eight are bilingual, six are Chinese only, and the rest are English with a WeChat QR on the back. The buyer wants the three shortlisted suppliers in the CRM with working contacts by the next morning so the RFQ can go out.

The failure. You start typing the Chinese-only cards into your phone. The company name on one is fifteen characters you cannot input, so you save it as "Zibo factory 2". A week later the buyer asks you to chase that quote and you have a phone number with no idea whose it is, on a card that has gone back in the drawer.

The fix. Photograph each card and run it through the scanner. The fifteen-character company name comes back as both the English trade name and the original characters, the mobile number lands in a phone field you can tap to call, and the WeChat ID is pulled off the card text. Download the vCard, open it, and the supplier is in your contacts under a name you can actually search. The three shortlisted suppliers are in the CRM before the buyer is back at their desk.

Related tools

Once the supplier is in your contacts, verify the company itself before you send funds. The USCC validator checks the 18-character Unified Social Credit Code on the card against GB 32100-2015, and the Tianyancha and Qichacha quicklink turns the Chinese company name straight into a registry lookup. Screen the counterparty with the sanctions screener before the first wire.