BusinessCardScannerVer3 is an open-source Swift iOS project for scanning business cards and turning them into structured contact information.
This project is aimed at building a practical business card scanning workflow on iOS, including image capture, recognition, parsing, and contact data organization. It is currently in an early public stage and is being actively maintained and improved.
- Scan business cards on iOS
- Extract useful contact information from card images
- Organize parsed content into a structured format
- Improve maintainability and code quality over time
- Provide an open Swift codebase for learning and iteration
- Swift
- iOS
- Xcode
This repository is still in an early stage. Public adoption is limited for now, but the project is under active development and maintenance.
Current work includes:
- improving code structure
- refining scanning and parsing workflows
- preparing the project for broader reuse
- improving documentation and release readiness
The project is open source so that the implementation can be improved transparently over time and potentially become useful to other iOS developers working on scanning, OCR, or contact extraction workflows.
- Improve scanning flow and reliability
- Improve extracted field accuracy and structure
- Refactor core modules for maintainability
- Add clearer documentation
- Publish tagged releases
Issues and suggestions are welcome. Contributions may be opened up further as the project structure and documentation continue to improve.
Business-card images and OCR text are treated as untrusted input.
AI-assisted parsing sends OCR text to an external AI service when configured. The project applies input boundaries, output validation, and secure credential storage to reduce prompt-injection, malformed-output, and credential risks.
Please see SECURITY.md for vulnerability reporting.
MIT License
Copyright (c) 2026 Gao Bob
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