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B-Scan — turning a stack of business cards into a working contact database

An AI-powered OCR product that reads a business card and returns structured contact data in under three seconds. We built the scanning pipeline, the contact database, the apps on both stores and the subscription billing around it.

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B-Scan — AI / Productivity case study by Beaming India
ClientB-Scan
SectorAI productivity SaaS
PlatformsiOS · Android · Web
ScopeProduct design, OCR pipeline, apps, dashboard, subscription billing
EngagementProduct build, in market
BasedIndia
The brief

What we were asked to solve.

Everyone who works a trade show comes home with a pocket of cards and types none of them in. B-Scan's job is to remove the typing: photograph the card, get a structured contact, keep it somewhere searchable.

The product had to work on any card — different fonts, layouts, languages, and the lighting of a conference hall — and it had to be fast enough that scanning twenty cards feels like a task you can finish standing up.

The hard parts

Where this project was genuinely difficult.

CHALLENGE 01Cards are designed to look good, not to be parsed

Vertical text, foil printing, logos overlapping data, phone numbers in three formats. The extraction had to be tolerant rather than rigid.

CHALLENGE 02Speed is the whole product

If a scan takes ten seconds, nobody scans twenty cards. The target was a structured contact in under three.

CHALLENGE 03Getting data back out

A contact database with no export is a trap. CSV, Excel and CRM sync were requirements, not roadmap items.

CHALLENGE 04Billing that stays out of the way

Three subscription tiers, in rupees, with activation, renewal and grace handling — all of which has to be invisible when it works.

What we built

The product, feature by feature.

01

Scanning and extraction

  • Capture from phone camera or webcam, with automatic crop and image enhancement
  • AI OCR that reads across different fonts, layouts and languages
  • Field-level extraction: name, job title, company, phone, email, website and address
  • Structured output in seconds rather than a block of raw text
  • Manual correction on any extracted field, because no OCR is perfect
  • Bulk scanning for working through a stack in one sitting
02

Contact management

  • Encrypted cloud storage, reachable from any device on the account
  • Search and filter by name, company, tag or any extracted field
  • Tagging and organisation for events, territories or pipelines
  • Export to CSV and Excel, or direct sync into a CRM
  • Dashboard view across the whole contact set
03

Commercial layer

  • Free tier with no card required, so the product can be tried before it is bought
  • Three paid plans — Basic Monthly, Standard Quarterly and Premium Yearly — all with unlimited scans
  • Rupee pricing and Indian payment methods
  • Account, plan and renewal management in-product
  • Enterprise enquiry path for larger teams
Approach

How we ran it.

STEP 01

Extraction first

We built and tuned the OCR pipeline against real cards before any interface existed, because if extraction is poor the product has no reason to exist.

STEP 02

Three-step interface

Capture → AI extraction → save and organise. The whole app was designed to keep that path to three taps.

STEP 03

Database and export

Contact storage, search and the export/CRM paths, so data never gets stuck inside the product.

STEP 04

Ship and monetise

Apps to both stores, web dashboard alongside, and subscription billing layered on once the free experience was solid.

DELIVEREDWhat shipped

  • Business cards captured to structured contacts in seconds, on iOS, Android and the web.
  • A searchable, exportable contact database rather than a folder of photographs.
  • CSV, Excel and CRM paths out, so the data stays the customer's.
  • A working free tier with three paid plans behind it.

PLATFORMWhat it runs on

iOS app Android app Web dashboard AI OCR pipeline Encrypted storage CSV / Excel export CRM sync Subscription billing

Live at bscan.beamingindia.com

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