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Business cards to Excel, without typing a thing.

Typing business cards into Excel by hand takes minutes per card and leaves the odd email copied wrong. With Tarjeo you take a photo of each card, the AI extracts the details in seconds and you download an Excel file with one column per field, ready to filter, share or import into your CRM.

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tarjeo-contacts.xlsx
Full nameCompanyJob titleEmailPhone
Ana GarcíaAcme CorpCEOana@acme.com+34 600 111 222
James WhitfieldNorthbridge FoodsExport Managerj.whitfield@northbridge.co.uk+44 7700 900123
Laura MéndezClimatek IndustrialSales Directorl.mendez@climatek.es+34 655 987 321
Made-up example. The real file has 16 columns.

Step by step

How to scan business cards into Excel in 3 steps

Someone photographing a business card on a desk with their phone, with the card framed on the screen
  1. 1

    Photograph the card

    On your phone, in the browser, with nothing to install. On a computer you can upload the image.

  2. 2

    The AI extracts the details

    Name, company, job title, email, phone, website, address, country and social profiles, in under five seconds. You check them and correct anything if needed.

  3. 3

    Download the Excel file

    From the dashboard, all your contacts or just the ones you pick, as .xlsx or CSV.

The file

Which columns the Excel file has

One row per contact and one column per field. The file comes with a frozen header row, a filter on every column and deal amounts formatted as currency.

  • Full name
  • Company
  • Job title
  • Email
  • Phone
  • Website
  • Address
  • Country
  • Social
  • Notes
  • Tags
  • Trade fair
  • Deal closed
  • Deal amount
  • Comment
  • Scan date

Format

Excel (.xlsx) or CSV?

.xlsx to open and work with

The one to use for opening in Excel, Google Sheets or Numbers. Columns, accents and amounts come out right first time.

CSV to import into another tool

The format CRMs and most tools expect. It is comma-separated and UTF-8, so names with accents arrive intact.

Filters

Export only what you need

You download exactly what you see on screen. Filter by trade show, tag, country or a search, or tick the rows you want by hand.

Trade fair · Alimentaria 2026Tag · LeadCountry · PortugalSearch · “director”

Comparison

By hand or with Tarjeo

By handWith Tarjeo
Per cardTyping in every fieldOne photo, under five seconds
MistakesEmails and phone numbers copied wrongThe AI reads them, you just check
ContextWhatever you rememberA voice note summarised in the contact
Follow-upA spreadsheet nobody opens againAlerts for contacts with no follow-up
TeamOne spreadsheet per repOne account per rep, each portfolio private

Questions about getting business cards into Excel

Take a photo of it on your phone in Tarjeo, let the AI extract the details, check them and download the Excel file from the dashboard. You get an .xlsx with one column per field, with the name, company, job title, email, phone, website, address, country and more.
Yes. Download the .xlsx and open it in Google Sheets with File > Import, or upload it to Google Drive and open it as a spreadsheet. The columns stay as they are.
Export a CSV and import it into your CRM. Most of them, such as HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive or Zoho, accept CSV and let you map each column to a field.
As many as you like. AI scanning has no card limit. The reading is done with your own AI API key, so the AI provider bills the usage directly to your account.
Tarjeo flags contacts that share an email address or phone number, and you can delete the extra one before exporting.

Stop typing up business cards

One photo per card and an Excel file ready for your team or your CRM.

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Do the cards come from a trade show? Trade show lead capture guide