How can you read QR Codes in PHP?

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Navarr picture Navarr · Oct 10, 2010 · Viewed 91.2k times · Source

Is there a plain PHP implementation for decoding QR codes?

I have a faux-smartphone. One of those phones that parades as a smartphone but that I can't download any apps for, and I want to create an email service to where I can take a picture of a QR code, MMS it to this email, and the email returns what the QR code contains.

However, the only libraries I've been able to find are in Python (and probably C++), neither of which I can access on my limited hosting environment.

Is there a way to read QR codes using only PHP?

Answer

Ashot Khanamiryan picture Ashot Khanamiryan · Jun 28, 2015

There is only one pure PHP QR code decoder. It's working with GD library, but can use also ImageMagick. This PHP QR code reader is ported from ZXing.

https://github.com/khanamiryan/php-qrcode-detector-decoder

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