The PHP OCR SDK supports the Business Card API.

Using the sample below, we are going to illustrate how to extract the data that we want using the OCR SDK.
Business Card sample

Quick-Start

<?php

use Mindee\Client;
use Mindee\Product\BusinessCard\BusinessCardV1;

// Init a new client
$mindeeClient = new Client("my-api-key");

// Load a file from disk
$inputSource = $mindeeClient->sourceFromPath("/path/to/the/file.ext");

// Parse the file asynchronously
$apiResponse = $mindeeClient->enqueueAndParse(BusinessCardV1::class, $inputSource);

echo $apiResponse->document;

Output (RST):

########
Document
########
:Mindee ID: 6f9a261f-7609-4687-9af0-46a45156566e
:Filename: default_sample.jpg

Inference
#########
:Product: mindee/business_card v1.0
:Rotation applied: Yes

Prediction
==========
:Firstname: Andrew
:Lastname: Morin
:Job Title: Founder & CEO
:Company: RemoteGlobal
:Email: [email protected]
:Phone Number: +14015555555
:Mobile Number: +13015555555
:Fax Number: +14015555556
:Address: 178 Main Avenue, Providence, RI 02111
:Website: www.remoteglobalconsulting.com
:Social Media: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johndoe
               https://twitter.com/johndoe

Field Types

Standard Fields

These fields are generic and used in several products.

BaseField

Each prediction object contains a set of fields that inherit from the generic BaseField class.
A typical BaseField object will have the following attributes:

value (float|string): corresponds to the field value. Can be null if no value was extracted.
confidence (float): the confidence score of the field prediction.
boundingBox ([Point, Point, Point, Point]): contains exactly 4 relative vertices (points) coordinates of a right rectangle containing the field in the document.
polygon (Point[]): contains the relative vertices coordinates (Point) of a polygon containing the field in the image.
pageId (integer): the ID of the page, always null when at document-level.
reconstructed (bool): indicates whether an object was reconstructed (not extracted as the API gave it).

Note: A Point simply refers to a list of two numbers ([float, float]).

Aside from the previous attributes, all basic fields have access to a custom __toString method that can be used to print their value as a string.

StringField

The text field StringField implements the following:

value (string): represents the value of the field as a string.
rawValue (string): the value of the string as it appears on the document.

Attributes

The following fields are extracted for Business Card V1:

Address

address : The address of the person.

echo $result->document->inference->prediction->address->value;

Company

company : The company the person works for.

echo $result->document->inference->prediction->company->value;

Email

email : The email address of the person.

echo $result->document->inference->prediction->email->value;

Fax Number

faxNumber : The Fax number of the person.

echo $result->document->inference->prediction->faxNumber->value;

Firstname

firstname : The given name of the person.

echo $result->document->inference->prediction->firstname->value;

Job Title

jobTitle : The job title of the person.

echo $result->document->inference->prediction->jobTitle->value;

Lastname

lastname : The lastname of the person.

echo $result->document->inference->prediction->lastname->value;

Mobile Number

mobileNumber : The mobile number of the person.

echo $result->document->inference->prediction->mobileNumber->value;

Phone Number

phoneNumber : The phone number of the person.

echo $result->document->inference->prediction->phoneNumber->value;

Social Media

socialMedia : The social media profiles of the person or company.

foreach ($result->document->inference->prediction->socialMedia as $socialMediaElem)
{
    echo $socialMediaElem->value;
}

Website

website : The website of the person or company.

echo $result->document->inference->prediction->website->value;

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