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title: Business Card OCR PHP
category: 622b805aaec68102ea7fcbc2
slug: php-business-card-ocr
parentDoc: 658193df8e029d002ad9c89b
---
The PHP OCR SDK supports the [Business Card API](https://platform.mindee.com/mindee/business_card).
Using the [sample below](https://github.com/mindee/client-lib-test-data/blob/main/products/business_card/default_sample.jpg), we are going to illustrate how to extract the data that we want using the OCR SDK.
# Quick-Start
```php
<?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):**
```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: amorin@remoteglobalconsulting.com
: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.
```php
echo $result->document->inference->prediction->address->value;
```
## Company
**company** : The company the person works for.
```php
echo $result->document->inference->prediction->company->value;
```
## Email
**email** : The email address of the person.
```php
echo $result->document->inference->prediction->email->value;
```
## Fax Number
**faxNumber** : The Fax number of the person.
```php
echo $result->document->inference->prediction->faxNumber->value;
```
## Firstname
**firstname** : The given name of the person.
```php
echo $result->document->inference->prediction->firstname->value;
```
## Job Title
**jobTitle** : The job title of the person.
```php
echo $result->document->inference->prediction->jobTitle->value;
```
## Lastname
**lastname** : The lastname of the person.
```php
echo $result->document->inference->prediction->lastname->value;
```
## Mobile Number
**mobileNumber** : The mobile number of the person.
```php
echo $result->document->inference->prediction->mobileNumber->value;
```
## Phone Number
**phoneNumber** : The phone number of the person.
```php
echo $result->document->inference->prediction->phoneNumber->value;
```
## Social Media
**socialMedia** : The social media profiles of the person or company.
```php
foreach ($result->document->inference->prediction->socialMedia as $socialMediaElem)
{
echo $socialMediaElem->value;
}
```
## Website
**website** : The website of the person or company.
```php
echo $result->document->inference->prediction->website->value;
```
# Questions?
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