# Japanese Business Card OCR (名刺OCR) – Contact Extraction

> Japanese Business Card OCR (名刺OCR) – Contact Extraction is a paid API for AI agents from api.jpverify.com, paid per call via x402, $0.03/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-13).

Extracts bilingual (Japanese/multilingual) contact information from business card images or PDFs into structured JSON or vCard format, including name, title, department, company, email, phone, and address.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://api.jpverify.com/jp-business-card/extract
- Price: $0.03/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-13
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/japanese-business-card-ocr-ocr-contact-extraction-61891e88
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_CWxUTJyAEQ7UYUxDB0OTK

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability japanese-business-card-ocr-ocr-contact-extraction-61891e88 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: I just photographed both sides of a Japanese business card — can you OCR it and give me the person's name, title, company, email, and phone number as a vCard? I'll send you the front image as a Base64 string and the back as an HTTPS URL.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need to extract contact data from Japanese or bilingual business card images (front and/or back) and want structured JSON or vCard output with field provenance and quality metadata. It is optimized for Japanese-language meishi including kanji, furigana, and mixed-script layouts. Do not use this endpoint for company verification, invoice validation, or corporate number lookup — those are handled by sibling endpoints on the same platform.

## Known failure modes

- Low image quality or blurry photos result in low quality score and missing or inaccurate fields
- Unsupported file format returns an error (only Base64, HTTPS URLs, PDF, HEIF, TIFF accepted)
- Handwritten or non-standard card layouts may produce incomplete extraction
- Image URL not publicly accessible returns a fetch/download error
- Cards with no machine-readable text (e.g., embossed-only) yield empty or sparse output
- Oversized files may be rejected or time out

## How this service works

Japanese business card OCR / 名刺OCR: extract bilingual contact data from Base64 or HTTPS front/back images and one-page PDF, HEIF, or TIFF files into JSON or vCard, including name, title, department, company, email, phone, address, page count, quality, and field provenance. No company or invoice verification. / 日本語・多言語の名刺OCR。表裏画像から氏名、役職、部署、会社、メール、電話、住所をJSONまたはvCardで抽出します。企業・インボイス検証は行いません。

## Output

A structured JSON object (or vCard) containing extracted contact fields: given name, family name, title, department, company, email addresses, phone numbers, postal address, plus metadata such as page count, image quality score, and per-field provenance indicating which side of the card (front/back) each value was sourced from.

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/japanese-business-card-ocr-ocr-contact-extraction-61891e88/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from api.jpverify.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/api.jpverify.com/llms.txt)