On-device OCR. Works at the entry gate. No cloud roundtrip.
Point the camera at a badge.
Keep the contact forever.
Scan a conference badge in 1.2 seconds. Export the entire day's contacts before the gala dinner.
NexaLink's badge scanner runs on-device — the OCR never phones home — so you can capture attendees at the registration desk, recruits at a career fair, or prospects at a booth, even when the convention-center Wi-Fi collapses under 8,000 laptops.
The scan, in four seconds
Open the app, point, capture, move on. The prospect never waits for your scanner to boot. Your hand is free to shake theirs again.
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Point phone at the badge
The camera locks on name, company, and title in under a second. No tap to focus, no QR hunt — the badge frames itself.
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OCR captures the fields
On-device neural OCR parses the badge into structured fields. 97%+ accuracy on standard conference badges, even foil-stamped ones.
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AI tags with the event
The capture is auto-tagged with the event name, the day, and the session or booth you were near — no manual tagging at 4pm Friday.
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Export or sync to CRM
End-of-day CSV, Salesforce push, or HubSpot sync. The gala dinner starts; your SDR has the list waiting in their inbox.
Built for the people standing at the entry gate
Booth staff
One-second badge scans between prospects walking up. No tablet kiosk, no rental hardware, no $500/day fee. The phone already in your pocket does the job — better.
Sponsorship teams
Track every attendee who visited the sponsor activation. Export a clean list with event + booth tags so the marketing team can run post-event outreach with proper attribution.
Recruiters at career fairs
Scan 180 candidate badges in a three-hour window. Add a 5-second voice note per scan. Leave with a ranked shortlist instead of a rubber-banded badge pile to type up at midnight.
Frequently asked questions
Which badge formats does the scanner actually read?▾
Any printed badge with a name, company, and title — that covers virtually every conference, trade show, and career-fair badge in the wild. The OCR handles standard lanyard badges, sticker badges, vertical and horizontal layouts, QR-embedded badges (read the QR or the text, your pick), and the glossy plastic badges that trip up cheap scanners. If a human can read it, NexaLink can.
What happens to the data on a scanned badge? The person whose badge I scanned didn't opt in.▾
The scan stays on your device by default. Nothing is sent to a third-party marketing platform. You're the controller of that contact record — the same way you would be if you'd typed it off the badge into your Notes app. When you choose to send a follow-up email, that's when the person first sees your outreach, with full unsubscribe options and your identity attached.
Conference halls are Wi-Fi deserts. Does the scanner work offline?▾
Yes. The OCR engine runs on-device — no cloud call required to turn a badge photo into structured name/company/title fields. Every scan, tag, and note queues locally and syncs the second you're back on Wi-Fi or cellular. You can scan 300 badges on the expo floor with zero bars and not lose a single capture.
I've got 240 scans from the day. How do I get the list out into a spreadsheet?▾
Open the event in NexaLink, tap Export. You get a CSV with every field — name, company, title, email if captured, the booth or session tag, timestamp, and your quick notes. Works with Salesforce, HubSpot, Outreach, Apollo, Google Sheets, or the plain old Excel your manager actually uses.
Three of us are working a booth together. Can we share captures in real time?▾
Yes. Add everyone to the same event in NexaLink and all scans flow into a shared list with automatic duplicate detection. The first rep to scan a badge owns the lead; if a teammate scans the same person later, their notes merge into the same record instead of creating a duplicate. One booth, one clean list.
How accurate is the OCR on a badge printed in a weird font?▾
Modern on-device OCR models hit 97%+ on standard conference badges. Stylized fonts, foil stamping, or low-contrast printing occasionally need a one-tap correction — we show the parsed fields inline so you can fix a letter before saving. For the edge cases, you can also just photograph the badge and dictate a voice note; the full-text search makes it findable even without perfect structure.
Get the scanner before your next badge moment
On-device OCR + auto-tagging + CRM export. One free account. The rental scanner stays in the box.
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