Create QR code from image

[jmak]

Our teachers want to create treasure trails/orienteering activities around the school site using iPads. The plan would be to create QR codes which provide either word or picture clues which the pupils use to navigate around the site. Is there an app which can automate this process? I have come across a website: https://www.qr-code-generator.com/ which does what we want, but the facility to create directly from pictures requires sign in to a paid account. We'd rather buy an app so that we don't have to create accounts for all of the teachers who are likely to want to use it.

[pooley]

Seesaw ? My school uses this to create portfolios of children etc but it also allows you to generate QR codes for media/work etc.

 

Otherwise host images in google drive/dropbox etc and create a QR based on share url

[DrBeaker]

Maybe some kind of CSV export/import?

 

How are you going to be deploying the app to the iPads if you do purchase one?

[DrBeaker]

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Otherwise host images in google drive/dropbox etc and create a QR based on share url

 

Good point here - what devices will be used to read the QR codes? Anything URL-based/Internet-based will need a Wifi or 3G connection.

[Garacesh]

Our teachers want to create treasure trails/orienteering activities around the school site using iPads. The plan would be to create QR codes which provide either word or picture clues which the pupils use to navigate around the site. Is there an app which can automate this process? I have come across a website: https://www.qr-code-generator.com/ which does what we want, but the facility to create directly from pictures requires sign in to a paid account. We'd rather buy an app so that we don't have to create accounts for all of the teachers who are likely to want to use it.

 

Can you not just make the QR code point to a URL?

[jmak]

If I was doing it, I'd just upload the photo to Google drive and convert the share URL to a QR code. I've suggested this and have been told it's too complicated. I'd quite like to find something that makes it easy as I foresee that otherwise it'll be me creating the QR codes....

[Garacesh]

I mean I can't say I'm massively up-to-date with them, but aren't most QR code reading apps smart enough to realise it's a URL and offer an 'open with browser' option?

[jmak]

I mean I can't say I'm massively up-to-date with them, but aren't most QR code reading apps smart enough to realise it's a URL and offer an 'open with browser' option?

 

Yer. That's not the issue - we want a teacher to be able to take a photo and convert it to a QR code. The kids then find the QR code, scan it and it shows the photo.

 

As an aside, the camera app on the iPad now has a built in QR code reader. It just recognises QR codes anywhere in the view and asks you if you want to open the url. No need even to line it up, let alone install a separate reader app.

[jmak]

Maybe some kind of CSV export/import?

 

How are you going to be deploying the app to the iPads if you do purchase one?

 

Using Meraki MDM to deploy - enrolled in VPP and using Apple School Manager for purchasing and managing apps

 

Good point here - what devices will be used to read the QR codes? Anything URL-based/Internet-based will need a Wifi or 3G connection.

 

iPads - As long as we don't start uploading QHD images, the site wide wifi will cope.

[mavhc]

So, you need to upload an image, get a url, and convert that to a qr code? The images have to be public or on internal server?

 

For public problem is anything that doesn't require a login will be full of unsuitable images for children and thus blocked.

 

I'd expect the workflow on a phone to go: take photo, auto sync to google photos etc. On desktop go to google photos, share photo, get url, put it into qr code chrome extension, eg https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/quick-qr-code-generator/afpbjjgbdimpioenaedcjgkaigggcdpp?hl=en

[jmak]

I think I've cracked it

 

I'm suggesting that teachers create a Sway. We're on O365 with SSO. Workflow is:

 

1) Teacher goes to sway.office.com

2) Create new Sway

3) Add image card (from local machine or Sharepoint or Internet)

4) Click Share and make available to "Anyone with link"

5) Use Chrome extension to convert url to QR code

[dhicks]

If I was doing it, I'd just upload the photo to Google drive and convert the share URL to a QR code.

 

This, but automated: set up a Team Drive (or OneDrive equivilent), give appropriate teachers access, probably with a sub-folder per project ("Maths Day trail 2019", "Biology Trail", etc). Set up rclone on a server to connect to that drive. Have a script periodically scan the folder and create QR codes for the share URLs. You could output the QR codes to PDF documents formatted as standard Avery sticker sheets, ready to print out and stick up on walls, then write those documents back to Google Drive so teachers can just pick them up and print them straight from the same Team Drive. You could add a trigger to something like Zapier to watch out for changes / additions to the shared folder, so your script would run as soon as a new photo was uploaded.

[jmak]

This, but automated: set up a Team Drive (or OneDrive equivilent), give appropriate teachers access, probably with a sub-folder per project ("Maths Day trail 2019", "Biology Trail", etc). Set up rclone on a server to connect to that drive. Have a script periodically scan the folder and create QR codes for the share URLs. You could output the QR codes to PDF documents formatted as standard Avery sticker sheets, ready to print out and stick up on walls, then write those documents back to Google Drive so teachers can just pick them up and print them straight from the same Team Drive. You could add a trigger to something like Zapier to watch out for changes / additions to the shared folder, so your script would run as soon as a new photo was uploaded.

 

Sounds like a plan - except I wouldn't know where to start with creating a script like that

[mavhc]

https://pypi.org/project/qrcode/

 

https://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2018/06/05/creating-pdfs-with-pyfpdf-and-python/

 

Not sure about getting the url from the google photo though. Maybe if you enable photos in drive, then https://github.com/jay0lee/GAM/wiki/GoogleDriveManagement#adding-permissions-to-a-filefolder-for-a-user will work

[dhicks]

Not sure about getting the url from the google photo though. Maybe if you enable photos in drive, then https://github.com/jay0lee/GAM/wiki/GoogleDriveManagement#adding-permissions-to-a-filefolder-for-a-user will work

 

Darn, good point - just having a list of files isn't going to help, we're going to need the URLs assigned by Google, because that's what we're making into QR codes. You're right, using GAM is probably the best solution - that can list and get/put files from Google Drive, too.