Tuesday, October 11, 2011

QR code animal ID attempts

I learned about QR codes at the Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival. If you want to learn the basics, I wrote an article for the Festival blog. Go to: http://jhwildlifefilm.wordpress.com/2011/10/05/qr-codes-101

I am currently working on an idea about tagging wild animals with QR codes. It would be amazing if the general public could help scientists keep track of individual animals. I did a test tonight on my not-so wild animals. And I am finding that if the codes are just a little blurry or distorted, they won't read. Here are three photos that I cropped and rotated the QR Code. Only one of them would read with the QR readers. I tried several, and http://zxing.org/w/decode.jspx is the only site that would read one of the below. Can you guess which one?

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Only number 1 would read. The other two won't read, even when I photoshop to fix the distortion and increase the contrast, sharpen, etc. Does anyone know of a QR reader that will work with slightly blurry/skewed images? Or has anyone had any luck fixing QR's with photoshop?