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You do not need to scan a QR code via a physical camera in your hand directly; any general purpose computer can run a QR code parsing program which accepts arbi
by lelandbatey 2y ago
You do not need to scan a QR code via a physical camera in your hand directly; any general purpose computer can run a QR code parsing program which accepts arbitrary images as input. It's so easy to do that there exist web pages which implement said QR code scanning in JS. Thus, the parent poster has recommended that you save the QR code .png file to your disk and then use such a piece of software, such as the website they linked, to extract the data encoded in that QR code.
That is how you can use nearly any general-purpose computer to scan a QR code.
- kuberwastaken 2y agoIndeed! Thank you for explaining this in a way better way :)
- iainmerrick 2y agoOr... use a URL. I'm sure the number of people who've ever scanned a QR code on a desktop computer is more than zero, but not much more.
- kuberwastaken 2y agoI think I myself brought that number into early triple digits, but I do also have a hosted version if you're interested! The reason for doing this project isn't practicality, it's because I can