This is cool, but what's the use of error correction when you're deliberately introducing noise? In my experience, these art-y qr codes are more challenging to scan than traditional plain variants, especially in real life scenarios where you don't always have a perfectly clear image
Modern iOS and Samsung devices have very good QR code libraries which work well even under challenging conditions. Other Android manufacturers (e.g. Xiaomi) and a lot of the "QR Scanner" apps on Google Play use a really old library that doesn't work well under perfect conditions.
Hei ! Just wanted to drop by to say that i tested this with a black and white logo that I had generated ; sounded like the worst case scenario ; it handled it flawlessly ; the picture didn't look the best - but the job was done and it worked. Bookmarked it will definitely use it if i need to ! Is this a commercial project or an open-source ?
It's a commercial project but I'm of course not planning to monetize the QR generation. That'll always remain free.
Currently adding more features that would appeal more to enterprises or businesses. Those will be the only paid features
This is cool, but what's the use of error correction when you're deliberately introducing noise? In my experience, these art-y qr codes are more challenging to scan than traditional plain variants, especially in real life scenarios where you don't always have a perfectly clear image
Agreed that these might not work flawlessly on T-Shirts for example.
Does work on flat surfaces in my experience, but yes, there's a slight tradeoff.
Title reminded me of these https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/i4WR5ULH1ZZYl8Watf3EPw
Yep, Stable Diffusion & ControlNet can make for great QR codes. There are even a few dedicated models for it https://qrdiffusion.com/blog/controlnet-models-for-qr-codes
Yep, found those really interesting when they came out. I used to run an AI startup until a short while ago. In my opinion, the cost to utility ratio still isn't there for most use cases.
So, that's why I wanted to find something deterministic, without all the compute consumption.
NitroQRs generate the same as normal QRs with some good old computing, and can be generated in bulk for basically nothing.
This looks great! I also gave it a try, uploaded a transparent png (which was converted to black, fair enough, guess there's no good default choice for all cases) and scanned the pretty QR code with my phone: Flawless. Thanks for building and sharing this, I love to see QR codes become more readable
There is a toggle to preserve color. Give it a shot!
The examples look a lot better than what I'm seeing in my own attempts and on the "Wall of QRs", I wonder if it's just because we're not using "High Res" or if there's some fine-tuning of the source-image involved.
In any case, this is massively cool. Did you see that little egg fella? He's got sunglasses and everything.
I've been writing about (and using) QR codes for a couple of decades. I love the innovation that happens within the bounds of the specification. One problem that I foresee with this is that they don't look like QR codes. People are now used to looking for a specific monochrome pattern to point their phone towards. There was a competitor to QR - MS Tag - which tried something similar. Their codes were able to be integ…
The irony is you can scan a URL with a phone camera and it's clickable, with the nice side-effect that the domain is human-inspectable. Just make the font a little bigger and it scans easily. QR codes are fascinating though, as they can encode more than mere URLs. But the vast majority in the consumer space are links. For that purpose, I'm rooting for OCR.
Agree with a lot here.
QR Codes have however become a cornerstone of digital convenience in a lot of the world. All the more true here in India, where basically everything is using QR Codes, from payments to restaurant menus.
People here are still not used to using Lens + OCR.
Then, there are issues like long links or confusing zeroes and O's.
QR Codes solve these pretty well, I believe.
I've been writing about (and using) QR codes for a couple of decades. I love the innovation that happens within the bounds of the specification. One problem that I foresee with this is that they don't look like QR codes. People are now used to looking for a specific monochrome pattern to point their phone towards. There was a competitor to QR - MS Tag - which tried something similar. Their codes were able to be integ…
The innovation here mostly seems to be shrinking the QR code dots and putting them over a background image? Frankly, these look pretty terrible.