QR Codes and Google Lens Tutorial
By Oleg Moskalensky Productive Computer Systems
During this live streamed event, Oleg delivered educational material and use cases how to adopt QR codes in various daily and business situations.
Here is the overview by Oleg:
Don’t have/want QR scanning app – just use Google Photos & Google Lens
Historically, you had to have an app on your mobile phone to scan QR codes, which are seen more and more all around us. There are plenty of scanning apps in the Google Play Store and Apple App Store, some free, some aren’t. But what if you didn’t want another app on your phone? Well, it turns out you don’t have to have one.
You can use Google Lens to scan QR codes and since it’s now built into Google Photos – you already have what you need to scan those codes.
Simply take a photo of anything with QR code on it (monitor, paper, another phone… anything with QR code on it), then open that photo in Google Photos and click on Google Lens icon. It’ll quickly examine the image and allow you to process that QR code.
What if you get email on your phone and thus can’t take its photo? Simple enough – just do a screenshot with QR code visible and then open it up in Google Photos (as above) and the rest of the process is the same.
I hope you found this tutorial as useful as I did.
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Nina Trankova says
Azlin Bloor Laercio Diniz Sousa this is a recreated post on the QR codes you were interested in. The initial one has to be deleted. Sorry.
Weabul Grey says
Wouldn’t it be fewer steps to simply email the link?
Azlin Bloor says
Nina Trankova thanks Nina.
Ben Guiry says
I see where you’re coming from.
Nina Trankova says
Weabul Grey if you mean the link to the video, sending it by mail would be spamming my friends.
Looks like I’ve missed what you’ve are asking, sorry!
Oleg Moskalensky I haven’t received so much spam on comments for months. I can’t tell is it QR code related or just the usual weekend wave😎.
Oleg Moskalensky says
Hi Nina Trankova, I usually get BS comments and a lot of them, in my Trump-related posts. Not QR… 🙂
Oleg Moskalensky says
Weabul Grey You don’t know who to email it to. Let’s say you want to promote your whatever and you have very limited amount of space to do it in. My personal recommendation used to be to just advertise the website and the rest of info should be there. But what if even that is too much, in terms of space? That’s where QR code comes in most handy. And you can use it for a lot of different things. Instead of having all these silly paper cards of different sizes in hotels, they could simply put a QR code with a short heading, like ‘conserve’ etc. They could place a QR code on various appliances instead of printing zillion copies of a book that hardly anyone touches and is outdated almost at the same time it’s published. That’s why QR codes are super handy. As I mentioned in my HOA – I use QR codes for people to launch my mobile ordering software. Someone walks into a restaurant, scans the code and can order food right there from their own table. The only other way for people to do it is to download/install ANOTHER APP (which most don’t want these days) or to manually type a URL and who wants to do that. This way – they scan the code and the functionality is right there. Slick!
Nina Trankova says
Oleg Moskalensky then they are expecting more Trump stuff on comments here. Many disappointed fans of yours, Oleg;)
Excellent implementation, thanks again!
I can add my use case, where I used my Twitter QR as a cover for my What’s up with the hint I’m not on What’s up in public, so go to Twitter:)