QRScan: recognition of QR codes
in PDF files of scanned documents
Initially created to sort a large set of scanned documents during my PhD period, QRScan recognizes QR codes in PDF files of scanned documents and then
reports these QR codes in a CSV file. QRScan can move
and rename the PDF files according to their QR code.
The QR codes can be stored as a file attribute (for faster future reference). If automatic QR
code recognition fails (for very low quality scans), you can manually add the file attribute to
the PDF file. To add QR codes to your documents (so you can scan them later), QRScan can
generate GIF image files with QR codes if you
provide a simple text file with the codes you want to be used (with one code at each line). See
for example this guide on how to use Microsoft Word's mail merge feature to add the images: Microsoft Word's mail merge feature to add the images.
The provided executable JAR
is ready to use.
A big thanks to the following projects: PDFBox by The Apache Software
Foundation, Java
Advanced Imaging Image I/O Tools API, and the ZXing project.
Java MIT
license