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It's pretty cool that QR codes were created by a Japanese automotive company in order to address the limitations of scanning bar codes, mainly that the scans only worked with a certain orientation. [1]

That being said, I believe bar codes have the UPC number below it in case the code itself is damaged. Could QR codes have a similar textual encoding to identify them? And would that even fit legibly in the square?

[1] - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365-life-hacks/pri...

parent viiralvx 1 year ago

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