This QR code is impossible to scan

[u/Trimblepsys]

[u/DrachenDad]

Panorama and stitch together. It probably wouldn't work.

[u/Trimblepsys → u/DrachenDad]

i tried lol! my phone just keep canceling but maybe it would work with a lot of photoshop

https://reddit.com/link/pgg31nq/video/u0c0j4zjb7vh1/player

[u/DrachenDad → u/Trimblepsys]

Maybe.

[u/Cephylus]

It takes you here

https://trees.islington.gov.uk/Trees/Map

[u/Wise_Geekabus → u/Cephylus]

Thank you! You are a hero!

[u/AloofApathy]

Lmao classic Islington

[u/AmbroseOnd]

Nevermind that, what about that barcode on the ground?

[u/Loquacious-of-Borg]

All QR codes can fuck right off.

Sorry, not sorry.

[u/warm_mac-n-chese → u/Loquacious-of-Borg]

Cos there ugly..? I agree with you on that (but they are kinda useful gng let's be real)

[u/TheCheshireCody]

QR Codes themselves are a great example of a "one job" failure. They were intended to replace barcodes with something more robust and with the ability to carry far more possible variations than a bar code can. Like, a bar code with an additional dimension. In their development they got dumbed down to the point where they can basically deliver a single short web address. But that task is something the most rudimentary text-recognition tools can do, completely obviating the entire functionality of QR codes.

[u/superjaja05 → u/TheCheshireCody]

But qr codes can have error correction unlike text

And text recognition can confuse characters like 0 or O . or , etc, and might not work very well in bad lighting/with a shitty camera

[u/Darq10 → u/TheCheshireCody]

QR codes need to be made by people who know at least anything about them, people often put links in qr codes that are miles long and then they get so noisy that you can barely scan them with your camera. You can easily make a smaller qr code by using capital letters btw

[u/jdunk2145]

Just take a video of the whole thing and let Gemini figure it out.

[u/Useful_Intern_5056 → u/jdunk2145]

pretty sure that wouldn’t work