Is there a free QR code reader for Mac?
Is there a QR-Code reader application for Mac OS X? I'm using Mac OS X 10.6 and an iSight.
Solution 1:
There is an Adobe Air application you can download called QR Reader - works on any platform that has Air installed, and a bunch of online services you could try too - QRGen looks pretty neat - you upload an image of the QR code and then it processes it for you.
Hope that helps.
Solution 2:
I just discovered QR Journal, which works fine for me. The latest version requires OS X 10.8/10.9 but there is a legacy version available which works with 10.6.
Now desktop users with an iSight (or iSight compatible) camera can read QR codes. Found a QR code in a magazine or catalog? Simply hold up to the iSight camera to scan, store and browse to. Received a QR code in an email? Just drag it into QR Journal to read it.
Solution 3:
There is an open source command line tool named ZBar. It takes a photo as an argument and extracts the information out of any QRCode that it detects in the image.
The open source project QR-Reader-Mac provides an Applescript script that acts as a wrapper to zbar. You can create a shortcut to the script for processing QRCodes or create a service, as explained below. The script will automatically open the URL contained within the QRCode in your default browser.
Usage
Step by step
ZBar can be easily installed with Homebrew:
brew install zbar
To install QR-Reader-Mac:
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Open the QR-Reader-Mac GitHub project page, select Code and download the project as a ZIP file:
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Double click the ZIP file to extract it.
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Double click the workflow you want to install. The following Pop-UP should appear:
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Confirm by pressing
install. -
Open System Preferences and add a shortcut to the open_QRCode service under Keyboard > Shortcuts > Services > General:
(Important: Note that QR-Reader-Mac expects to find the executable 'zbarimg' in /usr/local/bin/zbarimg, which is the standard path Homebrew will install it.)
Copy to Clipboard
The QRCode2Clipboard.workflow can be used to extract the content of the QR-Codes into the Clipboard. It can be installed in the same way as the open_QRCode.workflow.