QR Code Scanner
100% PrivateImage ToolsDecode a QR code from an uploaded image or your camera and see what it contains.
Runs entirely in your browser. Your input is not uploaded to Ovatly or anywhere else.
Decoding happens on your device. Where your browser has a built-in barcode detector it is used; everywhere else a built-in decoder library handles the image instead, so this works in any modern browser.
- 1Choose an image that contains a QR code, or use Scan with camera and allow camera access.
- 2The decoded content appears as text, exactly as encoded.
- 3Read it carefully. If it is a link, decide yourself whether to open it with the optional button.
- 4Copy the content with one click if you need it elsewhere.
Photograph a cafe poster's QR code and scan the photo here. If the code encodes https://example.com/menu, the tool shows that exact text and nothing else happens until you choose to copy it or open it. A code encoding plain text, like a WiFi password note, is shown the same way.
- Where your browser has a built-in barcode detector (Chrome and Edge, including Android) the tool uses it; everywhere else it falls back to a decoder library that runs on the device, so scanning works in any modern browser.
- Camera scanning asks for camera permission and runs only while the preview is open; frames are processed on the device.
- A blurry, tiny or badly angled code may not decode. Crop the photo closer to the code and keep it straight and well lit.
Scanning here is safe because nothing is opened automatically: you see the content as text first. The risk is only in choosing to open a link you do not recognize, which stays your decision.
About this tool
The QR Code Scanner decodes a QR code from a photo or screenshot, or live from your camera, and shows you the content as plain text before anything is opened. That pause matters: a code can hide any link, so this tool never navigates automatically and never guesses a result it could not actually read.
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