reading-business-cards SKILL.md skillA
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reading-business-cards from oaustegard/claude-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add oaustegard/claude-skills/reading-business-cards@v2.3.0Pins v2.3.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- oaustegard/claude-skills
- Path
reading-business-cards/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- v2.3.0, committed Oct 7, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 16, 2026
- Size
- 10,527 bytes
- Repository stars
- 158
- License
- MIT
Preprocesses photographed sheets of many business cards — slicing each into overlapping high-resolution tiles and de-glaring them with container tooling (OpenCV/ImageMagick) — then reads every card via cheap parallel temperature-0 API calls (Haiku or Sonnet) using a distilled extraction prompt, and writes deduped contact fields to a CSV. Use when a user has photos or scans holding multiple business cards per image, mentions glare or unreadable cards, batch card transcription, contact…
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Reading Business Cards Turn photos or scans that pack many business cards into one image into a clean contact list. The job is two stages, in order: **preprocess with the script, then read the tiles it produces.** Read the tiles, not the original sheet — the original is too low-resolution per card once the model downscales it. ## Why preprocess first The model downscales any input image to ~1568px on the long edge before it sees it. A phone photo of 50-60 cards is often 4000-6000px; downscaled to one image, each card lands ~150px wide — unreadable, which forces you onto a more expensive model. The script cuts the sheet into overlapping **tiles**, each near the downscale cap (~1300px), so every card in a tile keeps 500px+ of real resolution. That resolution recovery is what lets a cheaper model (Sonnet) read cards that only the expensive one (Opus) could read before — and it lets Opus read cards from far fewer tiles. **The grid is sized to the reader model** (see Stage 1): pass `--model` and the script tiles aggressively for Haiku, moderately for Sonnet, and least for Opus, because a stronger reader has a lower resolution …
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How to install
mdr add oaustegard/claude-skills/reading-business-cards@sha256:15821d80bd34a46bThe line at the top of this page pins the label v2.3.0, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 4 versions of this file, between Jun 16, 2026 and Oct 7, 2026, about one every 38 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v2.3.0 latest | 2026-10-07 | d854510 | 10,527 B | A | view · diff |
| v2.2.0 | 2026-09-09 | db4e3e1 | 10,331 B | A | view · diff |
| v2.1.0 | 2026-06-16 | 313621b | 10,347 B | A | view · diff |
| v2.0.0 | 2026-06-16 | 2adc24b | 8,351 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (10527 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
oaustegard/claude-skills · 158 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_wwerxo5zx6c2bfcw GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=oaustegard/claude-skills/reading-business-cards GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/15821d80bd34a46b1982374501e4fc46bde621a50f1b698b2624f831708a7c28
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