How To Create QR Codes In Ubuntu/Linux Mint

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Mohd Sohail
Mar 30, 2015

QR, stands for ‘Quick Response’ are the types of hyperlinks that can be physically distributed and users can easily access the url/text that is behind that QR Code. The QR code can encode upto 4,296 characters. QR codes can easily be created as a .png image on Linux machines with the program called QR Code Creator.

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Mohd Sohail

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