Scano QR

Scano QR is a free tool that brings fast, safe QR code scanning, QR code creation and text extraction from images together in one app. I, Berke Özyaşar, built the app as a personal project and published it ad-free on Google Play.

Why

Many QR scanner apps are full of ads that slow down even a simple scan. I designed Scano QR to be clean, ad-free and focused on one job: open the camera, line up the code in the frame, see the result.

Features

• Fast scanning: automatic detection of QR code types, including URL, text, Wi-Fi and contact card
• Scan from gallery: decoding QR codes in photos already on the phone
• QR generator: 7 templates: URL, text, Wi-Fi, contact card (vCard), email, phone and SMS
• OCR: recognizing text in images and turning it into editable text
• Saving and sharing the QR codes you create

Technical approach

I built the app with React Native and combined the camera, code decoding and text recognition in one interface. Camera-based scanning and OCR are technologies I also use in business projects: in the TCT warehouse app I built for a client, barcodes and labels are read with the phone camera. Scano QR is a simple, consumer-facing application of that experience. In the UI I kept scanning, creating and text extraction on separate screens rather than mixing them, so users can jump to whatever they want to do with a single tap.

For warehouse and field apps built around camera scanning, see the barcode warehouse systems page and the barcode warehouse app post. The app's landing page is at sberke.com/scanoqr.

Status

Scano QR is live on Google Play for Android.