QR Code & Barcode Scanner Online — From Image or Camera

To scan a QR code from an image, choose the photo or screenshot, or paste it with Ctrl+V. To use the camera, select Scan with camera and point it at the code. The content appears as a card: a link, Wi-Fi details, a contact, a UPI payment, a product number or plain text. The code is read inside your browser, so the image, the video and the result stay on your device, and nothing opens until you choose to open it.

One picture can hold several codes, and every one of them is read: our test screenshot of an event pack, with a ticket link, the guest Wi-Fi and the organiser's contact, gives three results at once. Add up to 30 images in one go and download all results as a CSV file. With the camera, scanning continues after each code, so a stack of parcels or tickets can be read one after another.

See where a link goes before you open it

Codes stuck on parking meters, posters and parcel notes are a known way to send people to fake payment and login pages. The scanner never opens a link by itself. It shows the whole address with the part that decides who owns the page in bold, and says in plain words what is unusual: a short link that hides its destination, a name written with look-alike letters from another alphabet (аpple with a Cyrillic а), a bank or brand name placed in front of someone else's domain, an unencrypted http page, a bare IP address or an app download. The link opens only after you select Open link.

What each kind of code shows

• Wi-Fi: network name, security type and password (hidden until you select Show), with Copy password.
• Contact (vCard or MECARD): name, phone, email and organisation, plus Save contact (.vcf) for your address book.
• UPI payment: payee name, UPI ID and amount, with a warning for AutoPay mandates and pre-filled amounts. Nothing is paid on this page.
• Product barcode: the number, whether its check digit is right, and the GS1 prefix it was licensed under. A UPC-A is shown with the 12 digits printed under the bars.
• Email, phone, SMS, map location and calendar event codes get the matching action; two-factor setup keys and Aadhaar codes get a warning instead.

How it compares

We ran nine other free online scanners on the same test images. All of them read a QR code photographed on a flyer, but only two read all three codes in the screenshot, and three read an EAN-13 label photographed upside down. MAXScanner read both, and every other code in our test set, including a blurred photo, a code rotated 35°, grey-on-beige low contrast and a code covering under 3% of a large photo. For a link written with a Cyrillic letter to look like apple, two of the nine warned that the address uses international characters; MAXScanner also says which brand it imitates.

When this is not the right tool

• To make a QR code, use the QR code generator.
• To copy printed text (not a code) from a photo, use Image to Text.
• Aadhaar QR codes are recognised but not read or verified here; use UIDAI's official mAadhaar app.
• The link checks catch common tricks but cannot prove that a site is safe. If a code on a payment machine or a parking meter looks stuck on, type the address yourself.