Scan QR codes right from your Linux Terminal

Date:
Fri, 15 Jul 2022 23:35:11 GMT

Description:
... you can export the QR codes as images... or even ASCII art! Neat!

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The more things you can do via the terminal, the better, I always say.

With that in mind, there is now a Linux shell tool that will scan QR codes (using your webcam), display an ASCII art version of the QR code, then spit out details about it (including the data / URL).

All from the terminal, using qrscan. Running QRscan is super simple

Using qrscan you can also export a picture of the scanned QR code in a
bunch of formats (jpg, png, etc.) and even export the ASCII version. Why would you need to do that? Who knows. But its cool! ASCII art rendering of
a QR Code. The way it was meant to be.

You can also pass in an image file of a QR code into qrscan to get the data or, heck, you can even pipe a QR code into it! The UNIX-y way!

While I dont, personally, have a use for this at the moment its definitely a tool Im going to keep in my back pocket. I love these sorts of small,
focused tools that work well by piping data in and out of it.

qrscan is available for Linux and the code is up on GitHub . Subscribe now





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Link to news story: https://lunduke.substack.com/p/scan-qr-codes-right-from-your-linux


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