Digitally Save Business Card Photos and Remove EXIF
Photograph business cards with your device camera, crop to size, remove EXIF metadata, and convert to PDF — all in your browser. Contact information never leaves your device.
EXIF & GPS removed
Timestamp and location stripped before saving to cloud
Why This Takes Longer Than It Should
Photographing business cards on the spot at a trade show is standard practice — and every one of those photos carries the GPS coordinates of where it was taken. The recipient's name, company, and direct line end up bundled with the time and place you met them, so sharing the photo shares your meeting log too. Uploading to a card-management service instead means handing someone else's personal data to a third party.
What's Actually At Risk Here
- ✓A business card holds someone else's personal data, not yours. Handing a third party's information to another service deserves more caution than usual.
- ✓Stripping the GPS coordinate keeps the location of the meeting from being reconstructed out of the photo.
- ✓Because it runs entirely in the browser, it works in organizations whose policy restricts cloud services.
4 Steps to Get It Done
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- 1Camera Capture
Photograph the business card with your device camera and proceed to editing
- 2Crop
Trim the background and crop to the business card area only
- 3Remove EXIF
Remove metadata such as timestamp, GPS location, and device information
- 4Image to PDF
Combine multiple business card images into a single PDF for storage or sharing
Where People Get Tripped Up
These catch people out even when the steps are followed correctly. Skimming them first saves a redo.
- Business cards are usually glossy, so shooting straight down blows out the text with glare. Tilt slightly and crop afterwards.
- If you want text, note that the OCR tool currently supports English only. For Japanese cards, keep the image and type the name in by hand.
- Compress lightly — a smeared digit in a phone number defeats the purpose of digitizing it.
Frequently Asked Questions
- Does it support OCR (text recognition)?
- There is an OCR Text Recognition tool, but it supports English only. Japanese cards will not be recognized, so keep them as images or PDFs and type the name and contact details in by hand.
- Do smartphone photos of business cards contain GPS data?
- They may, depending on your camera settings. Use the Remove EXIF tool to safely strip location data.
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