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/ Imager::QRCode

NAME

Imager::QRCode - Generate QR Code with Imager using libqrencode

SYNOPSIS

use Imager::QRCode;

my $qrcode = Imager::QRCode->new(
    size          => 2,
    margin        => 2,
    version       => 1,
    level         => 'M',
    casesensitive => 1,
    lightcolor    => Imager::Color->new(255, 255, 255),
    darkcolor     => Imager::Color->new(0, 0, 0),
);
my $img = $qrcode->plot("blah blah");
$img->write(file => "qrcode.gif")
  or die "Failed to write: " . $img->errstr;

# or exporting function
use Imager::QRCode qw(plot_qrcode);

my $img = plot_qrcode("blah blah", \%params);
$img->write(file => "qrcode.gif")
  or die "Failed to write: " . $img->errstr;

DESCRIPTION

This module allows you to generate QR Code with Imager. This module use libqrencode '2.0.0' and above.

METHODS

new
$qrcode = Imager::QRCode->new(%params);

The new() constructor method instantiates a new Imager::QRCode object. new() accepts the following parameters.

  • size - Horizontal and vertical size of module(dot). Default is 4.

  • margin - Margin size of QR Code. Default is 3.

  • level - Error correction level. Valid values are 'M', 'L', 'Q' or 'H'. Default is 'L'.

  • version - Version of the symbol. If specify '0', this module chooses the minimum version for the input data. Default is '0'.

  • mode - Encoding mode. Valid values are 'numerical', 'alpha-numerical', '8-bit' or 'kanji'. Default is '8-bit'.

    If not give casesensitive then should be given mode. If 'kanji' is given, characters will be encoded as Shift-JIS characters. If '8-bit' is given, all of non-alpha-numerical characters will be encoded as is. If you want to embed UTF-8 string, choose '8-bit'.

  • casesensitive - If your application is case-sensitive using 8-bit characters, set to '1'. Default is '0'.

plot($text)
$img = $qrcode->plot("blah blah");

Create a new QR Code image. This method returns Imager object plotted QR Code with the given text.

EXPORTABLE FUNCTION

plot_qrcode($text, \%params)

$text is input text. %params is same paramater as new().

SEE ALSO

Imager, http://www.qrcode.com/, http://megaui.net/fukuchi/works/qrencode/index.en.html

AUTHOR

Yoshiki KURIHARA <kurihara __at__ cpan.org>

THANKS

Tokuhiro Matsuno

LICENCE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2011, Yoshiki KURIHARA <kurihara __at__ cpan.org>.

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See perlartistic.