QR Code Reader (Offline)

Read any QR code you can see in the browser, in one gesture, and see what it says before anything opens. Decoded on your computer, nothing uploaded.

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Why it exists

Most QR readers in the store either upload the image to a server or ask for access to every website you visit. This one takes a screenshot of the tab you clicked on, reads the code from that, and shows you the text. It has no access to websites, no server and no account.

Four ways to read

• Right-click any image and choose "Read QR code".
• Click the toolbar button and "Scan this page" to find every code in view.
• Paste or drop an image into the popup.
• Open the camera scanner for codes on paper or a screen.

What you see

• The decoded text and its kind: link with its domain, Wi-Fi network, contact card, email, phone, SMS, location or plain text.
• Matching actions: Copy, Open for links (never automatic), Copy password for Wi-Fi, Copy phone for cards.
• A local history of the last 50 results, on by default, clearable, never synced anywhere.

Pro, one-time

A single license, no subscription, sold through Lemon Squeezy. It unlocks the generator's colours, logo and SVG export, and CSV export of a page's codes and of the history. The plain black-and-white generator is free.

What it asks for, and why

The active tab

To take a screenshot of the tab you clicked on. That is how the code is read without access to any website: the extension never fetches image bytes.

Scripting

To measure the image you right-clicked, so the screenshot can be cropped to it, and to show the result next to it.

Context menus and storage

For the right-click entries, your settings, the local history and the cached license result.

Camera

Only the camera scanner page asks for it, through the browser's own prompt, when you open it.

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