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QR Code Scanner

Read a QR code from an image or your camera. Drop in a screenshot or photo and the decoded content appears instantly, with links, Wi-Fi credentials, contact cards and other payload types recognized and broken down. Live camera scanning works right in the page.

Everything runs locally in your browser. Your data never leaves your device.

Drop QR code images here

or click to browse, or paste a screenshot with Ctrl+V or Cmd+V

Several images at once are fine. Each one is decoded on its own.

Next steps

Send this tool's output straight into another tool.

Break a URL into scheme, host, port, path, query and fragment, and edit every part on its own. Query parameters become an editable table where you can change, add, remove and reorder values, with everything decoded for reading and the rebuilt URL ready to copy.

Paste a 2FA secret or an otpauth:// link and watch the one-time codes tick live, with a countdown to the next code. Supports the digit counts, periods and algorithms real authenticators use.

Convert text into every case at once: title case in the APA, AP, Chicago, MLA, Bluebook, AMA and NYT styles, sentence case, upper, lower, camelCase, snake_case, kebab-case and more, each with its own copy button.

Count words, characters, sentences, paragraphs, lines and more as you type, with estimated reading and speaking time.

Remove duplicate lines from a list or text, keeping the first occurrence. Optionally ignore case and whitespace, or drop blank lines too.

Replace text in two modes: plain find and replace all, or regular expressions with flag controls and capture group references like $1.

Compare two texts and see every added, removed and changed line highlighted, side by side or inline, with the changed words marked within each line. Ignore case, whitespace or blank lines, read a summary of how much changed, and export the result as a unified diff.

Paste a UUID to see what it carries: version, variant, and for time-based versions the exact timestamp, clock sequence and node. Also shows the raw bytes, the 128-bit integer and the URN form.

Decode Base64 to text or encode text to Base64. Paste into the top box, read the result below, and flip the direction with one click. Handles Unicode correctly, reads URL-safe Base64, and shows binary payloads as a hex dump you can download.

Convert between scientific notation and full numbers as you type. Reads 1.23e5, 1.23 × 10^5 and plain numbers, shows the value written out, in normalized scientific notation and in engineering notation, and can round to any number of significant digits.

Sort the lines of a text alphabetically, naturally, by length, by numeric value or shuffled. Reverse the order with a switch, and optionally trim lines, drop blank lines and remove duplicates in the same pass.

Convert a color between HEX, RGB, HSL, HSV, HWB, CMYK, OKLCH and OKLAB. Type into any field and the others update as you go, or pick the color visually. Reads CSS color syntax and keeps alpha where the format supports it.

Check two colors against the WCAG contrast rules. Type or pick a text and a background color, read the contrast ratio, see which AA and AAA checks pass, preview real text at the sizes WCAG distinguishes, and get suggested fixes when a check fails.

Create a QR code for text, a link, an email, a phone number, an SMS, Wi-Fi access or a contact card. Set the error correction level, size, margin and colors, then download it as PNG or SVG or copy it straight to the clipboard.

Paste a cron expression and get a plain English explanation, a field by field breakdown and the next times it would run, in your local timezone or UTC. Reads five field crontab syntax, six fields with seconds, names like MON and macros like @daily.

Work out an IPv4 or IPv6 network from an address with a prefix or netmask: network and broadcast addresses, usable host range, subnet mask, wildcard mask and address type. Adjust the prefix with a slider, read the binary breakdown, and split the network into smaller subnets.

Hash text or a file with MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256, SHA-512, SHA-3, BLAKE2, BLAKE3, CRC32 and more, all computed live as you type. Compare against an expected checksum and copy any digest.

Verify a checksum online: drop a file, paste the expected checksum and see instantly whether they match. The hash type is detected from the checksum itself, covering MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256, SHA-512, BLAKE3, CRC-32 and more, and sha256sum lines or whole checksum files can be pasted as-is.

Encode text for use in URLs or decode percent-escaped strings back to readable text. Choose component, full-URL or form encoding, unwrap double-encoded strings, and break a URL into its parts with every query parameter decoded.

Convert Unix timestamps in seconds, milliseconds, microseconds or nanoseconds to readable dates in your local time, UTC or any timezone, and turn any date back into a timestamp. Shows the live current timestamp and relative time.

Escape text into HTML entities or decode entities back to plain text. Choose named or numeric entities, escape only the unsafe characters or everything outside ASCII, and read the result live.

Paste a JSON Web Token to see its header and payload as formatted JSON, with the token color coded so each part maps to its output. Explains the registered claims, shows expiry as readable dates, flags expired tokens and can verify the signature with a secret or public key.

Compress text or a file with gzip, deflate, brotli or Zstandard and see the size before and after, the compression ratio and how long it took. One click tries every method and recommends the smallest result.

Decompress gzip, deflate, brotli or Zstandard data from a file or pasted Base64 and read the result as text or download it. Detects the format from the magic bytes where possible, with a manual override.

Paste anything that looks encoded and this tool works out what was used and undoes it, layer by layer. The whole BaseXX family from Base16 to Base85, binary, URL escapes, HTML entities, ROT13 and gzip, Brotli or Zstandard compression are detected in any combination, and every step of the chain is reported.

Escape or unescape a string for JSON, JavaScript, regex, shell, SQL, CSV, XML and more. Paste text, pick the target format and copy the result, in either direction.

Paste a PEM certificate to see its subject, issuer, validity dates, subject alternative names, key details, fingerprints and extensions in plain view.

Format code in JavaScript, TypeScript, JSON, JSON5, HTML, Vue, CSS, SCSS, LESS, Markdown, YAML, GraphQL, XML and SQL. Pick tabs or spaces, set the indent width, and format the input in place with one click.

Reveal the characters you can't see in a text: zero-width spaces, non-breaking spaces, bidi marks, control characters and CRLF versus LF line endings. Inspect every occurrence and clean them out with a click.

Test a regular expression against your own text and see every match highlighted as you type. Capture groups are color coded in the pattern, the matched text and the match list, so you always see which parentheses captured what. Toggle any JavaScript regex flag, read the exact error when a pattern is invalid, and copy all matches as a list.

Split a long text into numbered posts that fit a character limit. Pick a preset for X, Threads, Mastodon or Bluesky or set your own limit, choose the numbering style, and keep words or paragraphs intact. Copy each post on its own or all at once.

Build a Markdown table in a spreadsheet-like editor and copy the aligned result. Add, move and delete rows and columns, set per-column alignment, and paste cells straight from Excel, Google Sheets or CSV. The output stays neatly padded so it reads well as plain text.

Turn any text into a clean URL slug. Transliterates accents and non-Latin scripts to ASCII, with options for the separator, letter case and a length limit. Handles many titles at once, one line per slug.

Inspect any file or text as a hex dump with offsets, byte values and an ASCII column. Jump to an offset, search for bytes or text, select a range to see it decoded as integers and strings, and copy or download the dump.

Look up any HTTP status code in a searchable, filterable table. Search by number or name, filter by class from 1xx to 5xx, and expand any code for a plain explanation and a link to the spec. Includes the common non-standard codes from nginx, Cloudflare and others.

About the QR Code Scanner

This tool reads QR codes from images and from your camera. Drop in a screenshot or photo, paste one straight from the clipboard, or point your webcam at a code, and the decoded content appears right away. Huge photos are scanned at several sizes and inverted (light on dark) codes are handled automatically.

The scanner does more than show raw text. It recognizes what the code carries and breaks it down: links open in a new tab, Wi-Fi codes show the network name, security type and password, contact cards (vCard and MECARD) list every field, and phone, SMS, email, location and authenticator setup codes are all taken apart into labelled values you can copy one by one.

What you can do

  • Scan a QR code from a screenshot or photo without a phone.
  • Read the Wi-Fi name and password out of a Wi-Fi QR code.
  • Decode several QR code images at once, each with its own result.
  • Scan live with your camera, with a camera picker and a torch toggle where the hardware supports it.
  • Extract contact details from vCard and MECARD codes.
  • Inspect otpauth:// 2FA setup codes and continue in the TOTP Code Generator.

How to use the QR Code Scanner

  1. 1Drop, paste or pick one or more images with a QR code, or switch to camera mode and start the camera.
  2. 2Read the decoded content and the recognized breakdown under each scan.
  3. 3Copy the raw text or any single field, and reveal hidden values like a Wi-Fi password when you need them.
  4. 4Send a decoded link on to the URL Parser, or rebuild and restyle the code with the QR Code Generator.

What the scanner recognizes

Beyond plain text and links, the scanner understands the common QR payload conventions: WIFI: network codes, mailto: and MATMSG email codes, tel: phone numbers, sms: and SMSTO: messages, vCard and MECARD contact cards, geo: coordinates with a map link, and otpauth:// two-factor setup codes. Anything it cannot classify is still shown as the raw decoded text, so no readable code comes back empty.

When a code will not scan

Decoding works best when the code fills a good part of the picture. If a scan fails, crop closer to the code, use a sharper or higher-resolution image, and make sure there is real contrast between the code and its background. The empty margin around a code (the quiet zone) matters too, a code cut off right at its edge is much harder to read.

See any image the way people with a color vision deficiency see it. Upload a picture and preview protanopia, deuteranopia, tritanopia, the milder anomalous forms and monochromacy next to the original, then download any simulation as a full resolution PNG.

Pull the dominant colors out of any image as a ready-to-copy palette. Choose how many colors you want, copy each one as HEX, RGB or HSL, and export the whole palette at once.

See and edit the EXIF metadata inside a photo, then download it with your changes or save a copy with all metadata removed, GPS included. It reads JPEG, PNG, HEIC and more, and edits JPEG files.

Copy the EXIF metadata from one photo onto another without changing the destination's pixels. That covers camera model, lens, focal length, exposure, GPS and more. Choose to replace all metadata or only fill in what the source provides.

Draw arrows, boxes, text, highlights and numbered steps on a screenshot, blur or pixelate anything private, crop the result and add a watermark. Undo works as you expect, and the finished image downloads as PNG or JPG or goes straight to your clipboard.

Convert images between JPEG, PNG, WebP and AVIF. Drop in as many as you like, pick a format, and dial in the quality for the lossy ones. When you convert to JPEG, choose the colour that fills any transparency. Live previews, download one or all at once.