How to create a QR code reader in a HTML5 website? [closed]

I was looking for possibility to create QR code reader in my HTML5 based web page. I've done some googling and all the links point me to the mobile applications.

Please help me with some pointers as to how I can use HTML5 and JavaScript to read a QR code containing a url and then redirect the browser to that URL.

There aren't many JavaScript decoders.

There is one at http://www.webqr.com/index.html

The easiest way is to run ZXing or similar on your server. You can then POST the image and get the decoded result back in the response.

The jsqrcode library by Lazarsoft is now working perfectly using just HTML5, i.e. getUserMedia (WebRTC). You can find it on GitHub.

I also found a great fork which is much simplified. Just one file (plus jQuery) and one call of a method: see html5-qrcode on GitHub.

Reader they show at http://www.webqr.com/index.html works like a charm, but literaly, you need the one on the webpage, the github version it's really hard to make it work, however, it is possible. The best way to go is reverse-engineer the example shown at the webpage.

However, to edit and get the full potential out of it, it's not so easy. At some point I may post the stripped-down reverse-engineered QR reader, but in the meantime have some fun hacking the code.

Happy coding.