Scan QR Code From Image

Yes. Select any saved photo, screenshot or downloaded image containing a QR code and it is decoded in place. Nothing is sent anywhere — the file is read by your browser and processed on your own device.

Anything your browser can display works, which covers PNG, JPG/JPEG, WEBP, GIF and BMP. Format is rarely the reason a scan fails; resolution and contrast almost always are.

No. Decoding happens client-side in your browser. The image is never transmitted to a server, never written to storage, and is gone the moment you close the tab.

The usual causes are a code that occupies too few pixels, heavy JPEG compression artefacts, low contrast between the code and its background, or a photo taken at a steep angle. Crop tightly around the code and try again — cropping alone fixes most failures, because it raises the effective resolution of the code.

Often, yes. QR codes carry error-correction data at one of four levels (L, M, Q, H), and at the highest level roughly 30% of the code can be lost and still recovered. What defeats it is a missing corner — the three large squares are what locate the code in the first place.

Far more than links. A single code can carry plain text, a WiFi network with its password, a phone number, an SMS, an email address, a calendar event, a geographic location, or a vCard contact. Whatever is encoded is shown to you as readable text before you act on it.

Decode first, then judge. Because the decoded text is shown to you rather than opened automatically, you can inspect the domain before deciding. Treat shortened URLs, misspelled brand names and anything asking for a login or payment with suspicion.