qr-ghost

A simple and lightweight QR code scanner.

open ideas

• Add support for WiFi QR codes
• Fix layout for tablets where less height is available
• Wrap as Android app -> see github.com/dotrey/qr-ghost-android-pwa

dev log

2020-02-22 v0.9

• Added features required for PWA
  • ServiceWorker for offline mode
  • .webmanifest for device installation

2020-01-12 v0.8

• Added manual camera selection if there is more than 1 backward facing camera

2020-01-04 v0.7

• Reduced number of permission request by keeping video input stream
• Automated release of video stream after loosing focus

2019-12-31 v0.6

• Added exhaustive scan mode (slower) for improved QR code detection
• Fixed auto-select on multi-cam devices
• Changed icon for scan button to camera icon for better recognition of the functionality

2019-12-30 v0.4 / v0.5

• Added support for back-button (v0.5)
• Added mechanism to automatically select default camera on devices with multiple cameras (v0.4)

2019-12-29 v0.3

• Added ?debug parameter to show console output

2019-12-27 v0.3

• Display info when in landscape mode that portrait is required

2019-12-25 v0.3

• Improved video overlay
• Added button to copy QR content
• Added logo
• Added examples of supported and unsupported code types

2019-12-24 v0.2

• Connected live video to decoder
• Added info view and credits

2019-12-23 v0.2

• Tap into device camera and display live video

2019-12-21 v0.1 Initial commit

• Read QR code from sample image using jsQR
• Display QR content, with optional link formatting if a link is recognized