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QR Code Reader

Read a QR code from an image or your camera.

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Drop an image with a QR code here, or click to choose one

Decoded in your browser · the destination is shown before anything opens

Quick Tool Overview

The QR Code Reader decodes a code from an image or your camera and shows what it contains before anything is opened — the safer order than scanning with a phone, which visits the destination immediately. URLs are broken apart with the real domain highlighted, and suspicious patterns are flagged.

What it does
Decodes a QR code and shows its contents
You give it
An image or your camera
You get back
The decoded content, parsed and checked
Best for
Checking a code before you trust it
Image Tools Free, unlimited use No sign-up Runs in your browser

About the QR Code Reader

Scanning a QR code with a phone means trusting whatever it opens. Reading it here shows you the destination first, which is the safer order to do things in.

A code can come from an image — a screenshot, a photograph, a saved poster — or from a camera if you allow it. The decoded content is shown as text before anything is opened, and it is parsed: a URL is broken into its parts with the real domain highlighted, wifi credentials are shown as fields, a contact card is laid out properly. Suspicious patterns are flagged — a shortened link, a punycode domain, an unusual protocol — because a QR code on a poster is exactly the sort of place those turn up.

Key features of the QR Code Reader

Shows before it opens

The destination is displayed as text first, which a phone camera never does.

Parses what it finds

A URL is broken into its parts, wifi credentials into fields, a contact card into a proper layout.

Flags the warning signs

Shortened links, punycode lookalike domains, unusual protocols and payment requests are all called out.

Camera or image

Scan live with permission, or read a screenshot or photo of a poster.

Nothing transmitted

Decoding happens in your browser and camera frames are read directly, never sent anywhere.

How to use the QR Code Reader

  1. 1

    Add the image

    A screenshot, a photo of a poster, or anything with a code in it.

  2. 2

    Or use your camera

    With permission, the camera scans continuously until it finds one.

  3. 3

    Read what it contains

    Shown as text and parsed into fields, before anything is opened.

  4. 4

    Check the warnings

    Shortened links, lookalike domains and unusual protocols are flagged.

Frequently asked questions

Because a phone opens the destination immediately. Reading it first shows you exactly where it goes, which is the only way to check a code on a poster or a letter before trusting it.

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