API Reference

Read content of business cards

🔎 Overview

Our free Business Card Scanner API provides the detection and extraction of contact details from business cards. We extract the following informations:

  • First name, last name and academic degree
  • Company and Position
  • Email addresses
  • Phone numbers
  • Mobile phone numbers
  • Fax numbers
  • Websites
  • Postal adresses

🔑 Authentication

Authentication is done by passing your API key as a Bearer Authentication. The Business Card Scanner API can be accessed through the following structure:

Authentication: Bearer <api_key>

🙌 Get an API key

A Spreadly account is required to create an API key. Visit Business Card Scanner > API keys (login required) to generate a new API key and to manage your existing keys.

📊 API Quotas and Usage

When you sign up for a free Spreadly account, you get 25 free requests. If you need to make more requests, you can buy more scans. See our pricing.

The X-Quota response header shows how many scans you have remaining. To see your total usage, look for the X-Usage response header. The API will return an HTTP status code 402 when the quota has been reached.

💲 Pricing

ScansPrice
First 20,0000.03€ per scan
20,000 - 50,0000.02€ per scan
50,000 - 100,0000.01€ per scan
More than 100,000Contact us

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