QR Code Scanner
How can I scan a QR code with my macbook camera?
MacBook Air 11", macOS 10.14
QR Journal is also in the Mac App Store.
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I couldn't get it to scan. Got the camera to work but nothing I saw showed how to capture and read the QR square.
I thought there was something organic to the Mac that I had used before. I thought I would never need it so I forgot what I did to scan a QR code. I looked in the App store and saw mostly apps for the iPhone/iPad. The top listed apps for the Mac needed subscriptions and were apps to create QR codes.
I just printed out a QR Code that I generated here. I held this printout in front of the Late 2013 iMac camera. I then told QR Journal to scan and aligned the QR code in QR Journal's window. There was a prompt requesting that QR Journal wanted to use the camera, and when I agreed, it scanned the QR code and displayed the associated URL. On clicking Open Link, Safari opened to that URL.
There is a useful Help menu, and AppleScript support too.
macOS Mojave 10.14.6 (18G2022). QR Journal v2.0.
The Non-AppStore one worked 1st time here with low rez sideways pic, load took me right to the page shown behind...
Search for QR in the Mac App Store. There are several candidate applications that can use your MBP camera.
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