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QR Codes are time-saving shortcuts: sort of hyperlinks that can be put on paper to follow.
QR Codes are time-saving shortcuts: sort of hyperlinks that can be put on paper to follow.
A Quick Response is a ‘two-dimensional barcode’ made up of black squares on a white background. Used in Android and Blackberry mobile phones for reading URL's.
The creation of QR codes in Ubuntu is simple, though command-line based. You will need to install ‘qrencode‘ from the Ubuntu Software Center - you can search for ‘qrencode’ manually, or use a terminal :
sudo apt-get install qrencode
Once Qrencode has been successfully installed you can create QR codes using the Terminal and the following command structure: -
qrencode -o- [filename.png] '[text or URL to encode]'
For instance a command to create a link to google in your homefolder you would run: -
qrencode -o google.png 'http://www.google.com'
this outputs the following: -
You can make the ‘pixels’ used in the code bigger by using the ‘-s‘ argument. Let’s make the same QR code but with the square pixels increased to 6×6 and have the .png saved somewhere else, e.g. your desktop:
qrencode -o ~/Desktop/google.png -s 6 'http://www.google.com'
The result is:
A Gui is being developed by David Green. Read more about that here:
https://launchpad.net/qr-code-creator
You could use the web-based graphical interface to Google's QR generator at http://zxing.appspot.com/gener... and as for reading QR codes on the desktop, I've found an AIR app that works OK at http://www.dansl.net/blog/?p=2... .
The Google Charts API does this. See http://code.google.com/apis/ch... An example: http://chart.apis.google.com/c...
