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QR codes are not meant for humans to read, they are meant for machines to read. Why do they want to make QR codes round or make them heart-shaped when they could just embrace the brutalist geometric QR code?

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[–] elliot_crane@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

idk what mobile OS you have but on iOS you can actually long press text in an image and it’ll OCR it into an actual text element you can copy/paste, like so:

I would imagine Android would have something similar but idk

[–] fruitycoder 1 points 1 month ago

No! Not as far as I can see and I couldn't find any foss software supported on my phone for it. That is a cool feature!