openqr

Installing

Install and update using pip:

$ pip install -U openqr

Introduction

This project aims to be the best, clearest QR Code generator library. The primary goals are flexible options and absolute correctness. Secondary goals are compact implementation size and good documentation comments.

Home page with live JavaScript demo, extensive descriptions, and competitor comparisons: https://www.nayuki.io/page/qr-code-generator-library

Features

Core features:

• Significantly shorter code but more documentation comments compared to competing libraries
• Supports encoding all 40 versions (sizes) and all 4 error correction levels, as per the QR Code Model 2 standard
• Output format: Raw modules/pixels of the QR symbol
• Detects finder-like penalty patterns more accurately than other implementations
• Encodes numeric and special-alphanumeric text in less space than general text
• Open-source code under the permissive MIT License

Manual parameters:

• User can specify minimum and maximum version numbers allowed, then library will automatically choose smallest version in the range that fits the data
• User can specify mask pattern manually, otherwise library will automatically evaluate all 8 masks and select the optimal one
• User can specify absolute error correction level, or allow the library to boost it if it doesn't increase the version number
• User can create a list of data segments manually and add ECI segments

More information about QR Code technology and this library's design can be found on the project home page.

Examples

Example:

from openqr import *

# Simple operation
qr0 = QrCode.encode_text("Hello, world!", QrCode.Ecc.MEDIUM)
svg = to_svg_str(qr0, 4)  # See openqr-demo

# Manual operation
segs = QrSegment.make_segments("3141592653589793238462643383")
qr1 = QrCode.encode_segments(segs, QrCode.Ecc.HIGH, 5, 5, 2, False)
for y in range(qr1.get_size()):
    for x in range(qr1.get_size()):
        (... paint qr1.get_module(x, y) ...)

Example:

from typing import List
from openqr import QrCode, QrSegment


def main() -> None:
	"""The main application program."""
	do_basic_demo()
	do_variety_demo()
	do_segment_demo()
	do_mask_demo()



# ---- Demo suite ----

def do_basic_demo() -> None:
	"""Creates a single QR Code, then prints it to the console."""
	text = "Hello, world!"      # User-supplied Unicode text
	errcorlvl = QrCode.Ecc.LOW  # Error correction level
	
	# Make and print the QR Code symbol
	qr = QrCode.encode_text(text, errcorlvl)
	print_qr(qr)
	print(to_svg_str(qr, 4))


def do_variety_demo() -> None:
	"""Creates a variety of QR Codes that exercise different features of the library, and prints each one to the console."""
	
	# Numeric mode encoding (3.33 bits per digit)
	qr = QrCode.encode_text("314159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510", QrCode.Ecc.MEDIUM)
	print_qr(qr)
	
	# Alphanumeric mode encoding (5.5 bits per character)
	qr = QrCode.encode_text("DOLLAR-AMOUNT:$39.87 PERCENTAGE:100.00% OPERATIONS:+-*/", QrCode.Ecc.HIGH)
	print_qr(qr)
	
	# Unicode text as UTF-8
	qr = QrCode.encode_text("\u3053\u3093\u306B\u3061\u0077\u0061\u3001\u4E16\u754C\uFF01\u0020\u03B1\u03B2\u03B3\u03B4", QrCode.Ecc.QUARTILE)
	print_qr(qr)
	
	# Moderately large QR Code using longer text (from Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland)
	qr = QrCode.encode_text(
		"Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, "
		"and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, "
		"but it had no pictures or conversations in it, 'and what is the use of a book,' thought Alice "
		"'without pictures or conversations?' So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, "
		"for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of making a "
		"daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly "
		"a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her.", QrCode.Ecc.HIGH)
	print_qr(qr)


def do_segment_demo() -> None:
	"""Creates QR Codes with manually specified segments for better compactness."""
	
	# Illustration "silver"
	silver0 = "THE SQUARE ROOT OF 2 IS 1."
	silver1 = "41421356237309504880168872420969807856967187537694807317667973799"
	qr = QrCode.encode_text(silver0 + silver1, QrCode.Ecc.LOW)
	print_qr(qr)
	
	segs = [
		QrSegment.make_alphanumeric(silver0),
		QrSegment.make_numeric(silver1)]
	qr = QrCode.encode_segments(segs, QrCode.Ecc.LOW)
	print_qr(qr)
	
	# Illustration "golden"
	golden0 = "Golden ratio \u03C6 = 1."
	golden1 = "6180339887498948482045868343656381177203091798057628621354486227052604628189024497072072041893911374"
	golden2 = "......"
	qr = QrCode.encode_text(golden0 + golden1 + golden2, QrCode.Ecc.LOW)
	print_qr(qr)
	
	segs = [
		QrSegment.make_bytes(golden0.encode("UTF-8")),
		QrSegment.make_numeric(golden1),
		QrSegment.make_alphanumeric(golden2)]
	qr = QrCode.encode_segments(segs, QrCode.Ecc.LOW)
	print_qr(qr)
	
	# Illustration "Madoka": kanji, kana, Cyrillic, full-width Latin, Greek characters
	madoka = "\u300C\u9B54\u6CD5\u5C11\u5973\u307E\u3069\u304B\u2606\u30DE\u30AE\u30AB\u300D\u3063\u3066\u3001\u3000\u0418\u0410\u0418\u3000\uFF44\uFF45\uFF53\uFF55\u3000\u03BA\u03B1\uFF1F"
	qr = QrCode.encode_text(madoka, QrCode.Ecc.LOW)
	print_qr(qr)
	
	kanjicharbits = [  # Kanji mode encoding (13 bits per character)
		0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1,
		1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0,
		0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
		0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1,
		0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1,
		0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0,
		0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1,
		0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1,
		0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1,
		0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1,
		0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1,
		0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0,
		0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0,
		0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1,
		0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0,
		0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1,
		0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
		0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1,
		0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
		0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1,
		0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
		0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0,
		0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1,
		0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1,
		0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1,
		0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
		0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0,
		0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1,
		0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0,
	]
	segs = [QrSegment(QrSegment.Mode.KANJI, len(kanjicharbits) // 13, kanjicharbits)]
	qr = QrCode.encode_segments(segs, QrCode.Ecc.LOW)
	print_qr(qr)


def do_mask_demo() -> None:
	"""Creates QR Codes with the same size and contents but different mask patterns."""
	
	# Project Nayuki URL
	segs = QrSegment.make_segments("https://www.nayuki.io/")
	print_qr(QrCode.encode_segments(segs, QrCode.Ecc.HIGH, mask=-1))  # Automatic mask
	print_qr(QrCode.encode_segments(segs, QrCode.Ecc.HIGH, mask=3))  # Force mask 3
	
	# Chinese text as UTF-8
	segs = QrSegment.make_segments(
		"\u7DAD\u57FA\u767E\u79D1\uFF08\u0057\u0069\u006B\u0069\u0070\u0065\u0064\u0069\u0061\uFF0C"
		"\u8046\u807D\u0069\u002F\u02CC\u0077\u026A\u006B\u1D7B\u02C8\u0070\u0069\u02D0\u0064\u0069"
		"\u002E\u0259\u002F\uFF09\u662F\u4E00\u500B\u81EA\u7531\u5167\u5BB9\u3001\u516C\u958B\u7DE8"
		"\u8F2F\u4E14\u591A\u8A9E\u8A00\u7684\u7DB2\u8DEF\u767E\u79D1\u5168\u66F8\u5354\u4F5C\u8A08"
		"\u756B")
	print_qr(QrCode.encode_segments(segs, QrCode.Ecc.MEDIUM, mask=0))  # Force mask 0
	print_qr(QrCode.encode_segments(segs, QrCode.Ecc.MEDIUM, mask=1))  # Force mask 1
	print_qr(QrCode.encode_segments(segs, QrCode.Ecc.MEDIUM, mask=5))  # Force mask 5
	print_qr(QrCode.encode_segments(segs, QrCode.Ecc.MEDIUM, mask=7))  # Force mask 7


# Run the main program
if __name__ == "__main__":
	main()

Links

• Documentation: https://github.com/MarkHoo/openqr
• PyPI Releases: https://pypi.org/project/openqr/
• Source Code: https://github.com/MarkHoo/openqr
• Issue Tracker: https://github.com/MarkHoo/openqr/issues
• Website: https://pypi.org/project/openqr/
• Examples: https://github.com/nayuki/QR-Code-generator/blob/master/python/qrcodegen-demo.py