JavaScript QR Code Reader - can it be done? Or, Remote Service?

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Myk picture Myk · Apr 2, 2010 · Viewed 22.8k times · Source

I'm doing a bit of preliminary research on an upcoming project and I have a quick question that I figure I'll throw up here while I look elsewhere, in case anyone has any experience with this.

The question is simple: is it possible to read a QR code using JavaScript? Is there a remote service to which I can pass a bitmap object from a camera and do it that way? Are there currently any libraries that allow this?

The project is going to be deployed to various mobile devices and we'd like to try to use Appcelerator to make it work. I know Appcelerator does expose the Camera API on its host devices, but whatever we do with it has to be able to parse QR codes. Is this something that can be done?

Thanks in advance! myk

Answer

dave1010 picture dave1010 · Apr 27, 2010

I bet it's possible, but it would be a challenge. Someone's written an AS3 library for reading QR codes. I'd start by reading up on image manipulation in Canvas.

If you go down the remote API route, Kaywa have an API you may be able to use.

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