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Fascinating, thanks a lot for these. Scandit and Cognex have iOS apps, and Aspose has a web recognizer demo. I tried all three with a 2D QR code (my vax card!
by gregsadetsky 5y ago
Fascinating, thanks a lot for these.
Scandit and Cognex have iOS apps, and Aspose has a web recognizer demo.
I tried all three with a 2D QR code (my vax card!) from which I truncated ~2-3 bit-"rows" from the bottom. None of the apps/site detected the code.
This is truly not a thorough test -- the 2D rows may be more information-dense than I think i.e. they are not recoverable using the built-in error correction (basically I'm removing too much information -- the equivalent of a long/deep scratch on a CD).
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I'm just trying to get an intuitive sense of how much damage a QR code can sustain and ... I guess if there's such a thing as QR code forensics (there must be...??) for decoding partial codes versus not detecting "anything".
Thanks again for the links. Super interesting space
- jhugo 5y agoWhen generating a QR code, you can decide how much redundancy to include, making the QR larger for the same data but more resilient to "scratches".
- gregsadetsky 5y agoThanks. Looking into it [0], the QR code I'm testing uses the "up to 7% damage" error correction level L, which makes sense since there's already a lot of data being packed in the (vax proof) code. ... I still want to find a debugging/verbose QR decoder :-) [0] https://blog.qrstuff.com/2011/12/14/qr-code-error-correction https://blog.qrstuff.com/2011/12/14/qr-code-error-correction