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Funny graphic image that looks like bar code.

doolox · 2017-12-04 20:49:01

Can anyone tell me the name of the funny looking images that sometimes appear on ads or other promotional literature or van signage etc that look like three dimensional bar codes. How does one read them and how do you get the app that decodes them so they can be used by humans??? I imagine the first step is to take a…

04-12-2017 09:49PM

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doolox

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Can anyone tell me the name of the funny looking images that sometimes appear on ads or other promotional literature or van signage etc that look like three dimensional bar codes.

How does one read them and how do you get the app that decodes them so they can be used by humans???

I imagine the first step is to take a photograph of them using a smart device but how do you take the next step?

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#2 04-12-2017 09:50PM

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QR code. There are apps that read them like this

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#3 06-12-2017 02:21PM

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Thanks for that Info.

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#4 06-12-2017 02:26PM

Alun

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I always found it a bit odd that that functionality isn't built in to Android as standard seeing how common they are.

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