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Supported code formats

The library supports a variety of 2D and 1D code formats.

CodeExample
QR Code
AZTEC
CODE_39
CODE_93
CODE_128
ITF
EAN_13
EAN_8
PDF_417
UPC_A
UPC_E
DATA_MATRIX
MAXICODE*
RSS_14*
RSS_EXPANDED*

Code scanning is dependent on Javascript BarcodeDetector APIs and Zxing-js library.

It's important to note that

  • BarcodeDetector may not be supported on all platforms. The supports is not so good on Windows platform.
  • Zxing-js also have some implementation issues as raised in several issues. The authors of the html5-qrcode are working hard to address those issues and improve scanning capability.