Subj : Re: General question about QR code scanning To : All From : james@nospam.com Date : Thu Jan 31 2019 19:16:25 Path: eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.o rg!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: james@nospam.com Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general Subject: Re: General question about QR code scanning Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2017 19:12:28 -0600 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 46 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: TKghX/mglWkVW1qxlGBsyg.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 2.0/32.652 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: feeder.eternal-september.org microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:134634 On Sat, 18 Nov 2017 21:03:51 -0500, Paul wrote: >>> >> In practice, are QR codes - at least on products, in magazine articles, >> and the like - used for anything _other_ than URLs? I ask because I'm >> off and on looking for something that will interpret them for my blind >> friends (might well be an iPhone app.), but if all they normally contain >> are URLs, I doubt they'd be that useful. (In that most things that have >> them also have the URL printed nearby anyway, and OCR can do that for my >> friends anyway - and URLs probably aren't much use to them anyway, given >> the poor design [for VH/VI folk] of most web pages.) I dont think they are all for URLs. I've seem them used at fast food reataurants in place of coupons. Sometimes they are used as "price tags" on items in stores (in place of UPC bars). I have seen them at events, for example if I am at the State Fair, if I have a smartphone, I can scan one of them and my phone will give me the fair's schedule. (this use probably is a URL). Another one I saw was a radio station contest poster that said scan this QR code to enter the contest. They are everywhere now. Magazines use them to (I guess) identify the name month and year of the magazine. I've even seen them on billboards now. I suppose you're supposed to photograph the billboard... ??? One other thing I wonder about, wont they ever run out of codes? There are only so many ways to modify those dots before they run out of them... And considering how often they are being used, there has to be a point in time when they simply run out.... I dont remember what website I saw this, but someone made a QR code that looked like a horse's head in the middle, with the usual large corner squares. I dont know if it would actually scan, or was just someone being creative, but it made me wonder if they could be made as artwork pertaining to their use. For example, can the radio station contest make the QR code look like a radio, or can the fast food place make the QR look like a hamburger, or their logo? I recall when they first started using them QR codes (not too many years ago), and I began seeing them everywhere and had no idea why they were putting those funny looking boxes on stuff. Since I did not know what they were called, I tried to google them, with no results, (since I did not know what to search for). I finally used google/images and searched for barcodes and found a QR code and then I was able to search for that. I always wonder how average people are supposed to know about this stuff, unless they are tech savvy. --- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.1 * Origin: Prison Board BBS Mesquite Tx //telnet.RDFIG.NET www. (1:124/5013) .