Since it has been mentioned here I'll post a link my wiki where I have made some notes on what I did. <div><a href="http://david-halliday.co.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=linux:scripts:encode_qr_codes">http://david-halliday.co.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=linux:scripts:encode_qr_codes</a></div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="http://david-halliday.co.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=linux:scripts:encode_qr_codes"></a>My situation was a requirement to create a batch (70 -100) of QR codes for digital business cards that can be scanned by mobile phones (or netbooks). </div>
<div><br></div><div>There are web based generators for generic QR codes: <a href="http://qrcode.kaywa.com/">http://qrcode.kaywa.com/</a></div><div><a href="http://qrcode.kaywa.com/"></a>Here is one for a business card: <a href="http://www.the2dcode.com/qr-code-generator">http://www.the2dcode.com/qr-code-generator</a></div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.the2dcode.com/qr-code-generator"></a>Part of the interest was using google docs to build a form that pushes data into a google document spreadsheet for easy extraction/manipulation. If you want to collect data from people quickly and easily this is a lot easier and faster than building your own web based data capture page and data model etc...<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 6 April 2011 22:20, Peter Childs <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pchilds@bcs.org">pchilds@bcs.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Following a conversation with David Holiday last night in the pub, he<br>
mentioned he had suggested qrcode codes to be used for BarCamp.... My<br>
reply was what are they and what can I actually do with them. (My<br>
knowledge being (from 10 years ago) that doing any kind of image<br>
reading was hard work at best.....<br>
<br>
Anyway following that and a bit of googling, I came across zbar. Its a<br>
bar code reading utility with plugins for most of the standard apis.<br>
but zbarcam reads my webcam on my netbook and prints any barcodes it<br>
reads to the standard output, I've only tested it with the backs of<br>
two books and so long as the books are held straight and close enough<br>
it reads the bar codes fine.....<br>
<br>
so qrcodes can be generated with..... qrencode and read with zbar<br>
quite neat really.....<br>
<br>
<a href="http://zbar.sourceforge.net/" target="_blank">http://zbar.sourceforge.net/</a><br>
<br>
Peter<br>
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