Include command line tool
Sturwandan opened this issue · comments
I would like to generate QR code from bash, but it seems that there is no qr encoder executable. There is only a demo in /c/, however I wanted something like dtmxwrite from https://github.com/dmtx/dmtx-utils which allows to generate code with my text instead of predefined text and save it to image file if necessary.
It also would be nice if it had option to select characters for blank and filled areas, instead of hardcoded ## and double space, for I might want to use 1 and 0 to dump it into netpbm file, or ██ to scan directly from terminal.
The online demo on your website looks nice, but I'd rather not depend from a web site.
Sorry, please do it yourself. At the moment I am not interested in writing and maintaining a fully featured command-line programs in every language.
generate code with my text instead of predefined text ... instead of hardcoded ## and double space
Modifying the demo program to suit your needs isn't hard. Use argv as the input text. Delete the vast majority of the demo functions.
save it to image file
I don't want to deal with the selection and maintenance of third-party libraries.
option to select characters for blank and filled areas
Options upon options.
I'd rather not depend from a web site
Compile TypeScript to JavaScript and use the local web page: https://github.com/nayuki/QR-Code-generator/tree/master/typescript-javascript
Thank you for your answer.
I wrote this bug report before discovering that my OS already had qrencode executable.
Though, it turned out, that I didn't really need anything at all, because I wanted to also have an aztec encoder and only one I found for Linux was zint, which also supports all other types of barcodes, including QR and DataMatrix, so I don't really need anything else anymore for now.
At the moment I am not interested in writing and maintaining a fully featured command-line programs in every language.
I think one in C language would be sufficient.
I don't want to deal with the selection and maintenance of third-party libraries.
I guess that support for netpbm format would be sufficient. It's same as ASCII you output to terminal, except it has 0 and 1 instead of double whitespaces and double ## plus simple header with dimensions.
You don't have to add a command line tool if you don't want to, but I honestly kinda expected to find at least a simple one, when I downloaded and tried to compile the C language directory. But indeed, if there were no other generators, I'd have to modify the demo program as you suggested above.