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QR Codes

What are QR Codes?

QR Codes or Quick Response codes are specific  two-dimensional bar-code, readable by dedicated QR bar-code readers and Smart phones.

They are similar to standard bar codes but have much more functionality. QR codes are encoded with information ranging from text, photos, and videos, to website addresses and are scanned by smart phones. 

They look like

It is named as Quick Response code as the creator intended it to be decoded at high speeds

It was created by Toyota’s, Denso-Wave in 1994, the QR code is one of the most popular types of two-dimensional bar-codes.

  Where are QR Code used?

QR Codes are added to any print advertising, flyers, posters, invites, TV ads etc containing:

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 Product details

                  Contact details

Offer details

                     Twitter, Facebook, MySpace IDs

                 A link to your Website

                                                                                     QR Code Google.com

Others

                                                   QR Codes are increasingly being spotted on billboards, behind buses, inside newspaper flyers, and on business cards, mail order catalogues, stickers, ID cards, and a host of other places.

How to Generate QR code

  There are many QR code readers available for smartphones, including: iPhone: QR Code City BlackBerry: NeoReader Android: QR Droid