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Open an image with a QR code
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Free QR code tool
QR Code Reader: Read a QR Code from an Image
Open a screenshot, photo or saved picture of a QR code to see exactly what it holds, without a phone. Links are shown as text and never opened for you.
Read in your browser — the image is not uploaded or stored.
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What the code holds
Links are not opened for you. Check a link before you visit it: a QR code can point anywhere.
What this reader can read
- Reads well: screenshots, downloaded QR images and clear, straight-on photos, including codes made with the QR Code Generator and light-on-dark codes.
- One code at a time. If the image holds several codes, one is read. Crop the image to the code you want.
- May not read: very blurry, small, tilted or damaged codes, codes with a logo covering too much of them, and other barcode types (such as Data Matrix or the barcodes on products).
- If nothing is found: crop the image close around the code (leaving a little white border), use a sharper or larger image, or take the photo straight on in good light.
The text is shown exactly as the code holds it, including spaces and line breaks. Wi-Fi, contact and other special codes are shown as their raw text, which is what a phone would read before acting on it.
Private by design
The image is read in your browser. It is not sent to Doodleden™ or anyone else and not stored. The text it holds, which may include a Wi-Fi password or contact details, stays on your screen only.
Reading uses jsQR (an open-source project on GitHub), under the Apache License 2.0. Doodleden™ serves it from its own site.
Nothing you enter is uploaded to or stored by Doodleden™. This site is funded by advertising; our ad partners use cookies and similar technologies as described in our privacy policy.