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QR Code Scanner

How can I scan a QR code with my macbook camera?

MacBook Air 11", macOS 10.14

Posted on Dec 29, 2019 8:19 AM

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Posted on Dec 29, 2019 12:17 PM

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.

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Dec 30, 2019 3:08 PM in response to Staynavytom

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.

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