Read business cards shared in Telegram
Take a photo, send it to Telegram, and get the visible details extracted as text.
Trigger
New Message Received
Triggered when your bot receives a new message in a private chat, group, or supergroup. To receive every message in a group, Privacy Mode must be disabled for the bot in BotFather.
Action
ASTICA_READ_TEXT
Tool to perform ocr on an image to extract text. use when you need to read raw text from images after confirming the image source.
Why this helps
Contact details from events often sit in photos that are awkward to search and easy to forget.
- Make names and contact details easier to review.
- Reduce manual typing after an event.
- Keep new contact information from getting buried in images.
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Telegram and Astica ai once through the portal.
- 2Create an automation in the portal or ask Notis to create one conversationally.
- 3Describe one instruction for confirming the source image and extracting visible business card text with Astica OCR.
- 4Choose New Message Received as the trigger and select where run reports should appear.
- 5Test with a clear business card photo sent to an accessible chat.
Questions about this workflow
Does the workflow add the contact to an address book?
No. It extracts image text for you to review.
Will it always identify fields like email and phone?
The action extracts raw text. Check the result against the original image.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Telegram to Astica ai. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Telegram triggers
Astica ai actions
Recurring trigger
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ASTICA_READ_TEXT
Tool to perform ocr on an image to extract text. use when you need to read raw text from images after confirming the image source.
New Message Received
Triggered when your bot receives a new message in a private chat, group, or supergroup. To receive every message in a group, Privacy Mode must be disabled for the bot in BotFather.
New Channel Post
Triggered when a new post is published to a channel where your bot is an administrator.
Callback Query Received
Triggered when a user taps an inline keyboard button attached to one of your bot's messages.
Message Edited
Triggered when a message in a chat your bot can see is edited by its sender.
New Chat Member
Triggered when a new member joins a group or supergroup the bot belongs to, including when the bot itself is added.
Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.
Telegram and Astica ai, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.
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