Text QR code
Anything you type here goes into the code as plain text. A scanner shows the words rather than opening anything.
Useful for a serial number on a piece of equipment, an instruction on a label, or a note that has to survive without a network.
Shown as words when scanned, rather than opening anything.
Your code appears here as you type.
Questions
- Do the codes expire?
- No. The code contains your information directly — there is no short link in the middle that could stop working, no account behind it, and nothing to renew. A code made here works in ten years exactly as it does today, because nothing has to still be running for it to.
- Is anything I type sent anywhere?
- No. The code is drawn in your browser as you type. Nothing is uploaded, there is no server here that could receive it, and the picture you download is generated on your own device. You can check with your browser's network tab: no request carries what you entered.
- How much text fits?
- Around 1,800 characters at the default settings, but long text makes a dense code that needs a better camera and a bigger print. If it is more than a couple of sentences, a link to the text usually scans more reliably than the text itself.
- Do accents and other alphabets work?
- Yes. The text is encoded as UTF-8, so accents, Arabic, Chinese and emoji all survive the round trip.