QR stands for Quick Response. The QR encloses information such as URLs and text messages that can be translated by making use of a Quick Response scanner. The Samsung Galaxy S9 QR scanner has the capacity to translate QR codes by default, but this tool is hidden in the phone.
The Quick Response codes are squared barcodes with a two-dimensional barcode that was first created and used in Japan. Like any other barcode, a Quick Response code is nothing more than a medium used to save and store information in a readable optical format. The data are embedded by a Quick Response code. This is then translated to anything from easy text, to phone numbers, to email addresses etc.
Quick Response codes store information making use of patterns of black squared dots with white spaces. These dots are well arranged in a square format. These patterns are then translated and scanned into legible human data, with the assistance of an imaging phone, like a scanner or camera. You might be wondering why these codes are even important. Let’s take a look
Why are QR codes helpful?
This may be a very tough question if you are not familiar to use the QR code. If you ask someone who has no clue of what Quick Response codes are. But now that you know, the question in mind has gotten a lot easier to think and answer. Quick Response codes can be used for anything conservative barcodes are, so right there you have various uses. But there are many things Quick Response codes are able of that square barcodes are not, but due to their restrictions. So how is this reflected in its app?
Quick Response codes have come a long way, having first been made to assist and track parts in the developing process of machines. Today they have even many purposes which include transport ticketing, commercial tracking, entertainment, and product marketing/ labeling. You can make use of Quick Response codes to send users to a website for browsing, to initiate phone calls, to bookmark a webpage, to send messages, produce links to web URL’s, to send emails, start chats with blackberry users, etc.
Quick Response codes are simple to create and use. They are a suitable way to store a different kind of data in a very small space. If the data you want to save in a Quick Response code is made of only alphanumeric characters, a single Quick Response code can store up to 4000 characters.
How To Scan QR Codes On Galaxy S9
- First of all, activate the Quick Response Code extension from the device Internet browser. Then click and open the browser then click on the icon with the three dots located at the top right side of the phone screen. Once a menu pop ups choose –Extensions – and then turn on the slider for the Quick Response Code Reader
- In other to scan a Quick Response code click on the character with the three dots. The click on -Scan QR Code-. Click and confirm the option that Samsung is allowed to make use of your camera. You should now be able to scan in a Quick Response Code. The result will be shown openly in the browser.
