[Klug-general] QR-Codes

[David Halliday]

Since it has been mentioned here I'll post a link my wiki where I have made
some notes on what I did.
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>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).

There are web based generators for generic QR codes:
http://qrcode.kaywa.com/
<http://qrcode.kaywa.com/>Here is one for a business card:
http://www.the2dcode.com/qr-code-generator

<http://www.the2dcode.com/qr-code-generator>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...

On 6 April 2011 22:20, Peter Childs <pchilds at bcs.org> wrote:

> Following a conversation with David Holiday last night in the pub, he
> mentioned he had suggested qrcode codes to be used for BarCamp.... My
> reply was what are they and what can I actually do with them. (My
> knowledge being (from 10 years ago) that doing any kind of image
> reading was hard work at best.....
>
> Anyway following that and a bit of googling, I came across zbar. Its a
> bar code reading utility with plugins for most of the standard apis.
> but zbarcam reads my webcam on my netbook and prints any barcodes it
> reads to the standard output, I've only tested it with the backs of
> two books and so long as the books are held straight and close enough
> it reads the bar codes fine.....
>
> so qrcodes can be generated with..... qrencode and read with zbar
> quite neat really.....
>
> http://zbar.sourceforge.net/
>
> Peter
>
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