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Barclays Bank UK QR Code

By Roger ⋅ December 26, 2009 ⋅ Email this post ⋅ Print this post ⋅ Post a comment

2d-code reader “Cherky” sent in this picture of a large QR Code sticker in the window of the Canary Wharf branch of Barclays. It looks like it will be difficult to read with its reversed light and dark, and very little space around the code. It actually decodes to “Happy Christmas from all of us at Barclays” but I would be interested to know which QR Code readers can and can’t interpret the code. Please leave a comment below if it works for you (or not!).

Barclays Bank QR Code window sticker

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12 comments for “Barclays Bank UK QR Code”

  1. Cherky emailed me to say he was using a Nokia 6303 with the i-nigma code reader to decode.

    Posted by Roger | December 26, 2009, 5:22 pm

  2. didn’t work (at least your photo of it) for my Droid.

    Posted by dean collins | December 27, 2009, 2:13 am

  3. With a Nokia E71:
    - Upcode: didn’t work
    - I-nigma: works very well
    - Nokia Point&Find: didn’t work
    - Mobile Tag: didn’t work

    Regards,
    Nacho.

    Posted by Nacho | December 28, 2009, 12:26 pm

  4. On my Nokia E51
    NeoReader works

    Kaywa, UpCode, BeeTagg, i-nigma and QuickMark don’t

    Regards,
    Prokka

    Posted by Prokka | December 29, 2009, 10:55 am

  5. Hi, tried with a Scanlife app. that can read EZ, QR and DTM + 1D codes. Did not work even though :-)

    HAPPY NEW YEAR to all
    regards
    jesper

    Posted by jesper | December 30, 2009, 5:11 pm

  6. Hi again. Now tried it with my Nokia E71 with Scanlife app. It worked very fine, fast. Love 2D codes :-)

    have a good 2010 to all

    Posted by jesper | January 5, 2010, 4:46 pm

  7. Tested with BeeTggg on:

    Nokia E71
    Nokia 6700
    SE W995

    Works ever so fine!

    Try it out get the reader via your mobile browser url: http://get.beetagg.com

    Posted by Soren Kragh | January 6, 2010, 2:22 pm

  8. This is why I started a QR code consulting company. People are enthusiastic about using QR but don’t have a total understanding of how they work. There are ways of using QR incorrectly, and although beautiful to look at, this is a FAIL. You should have at least a 90% success rate in QR code translation and for the other 10% post a URL so they can view the content as well.

    -Rick

    Posted by Rick | January 7, 2010, 8:09 am

  9. Hi, tested with iPhone & QuickMark ….no joy.

    Posted by Jeremy Griffin | January 7, 2010, 11:03 am

  10. Using iphone 3Gs

    i-nigma - yes (expected it resolves most codes)
    Neo reader yes
    Semacode - no
    Mobiletag - yes
    BeeTagg pro - no
    Lynkee - no

    Posted by John Hetherington | July 10, 2010, 7:49 am

  11. Ahh.. The inverted QR code challenge.

    I wrote about this for Iphone on my blog. These are the apps on iphone that support and dont support inverted QR codes. http://qrarts.wordpress.com/2010/06/19/readers-that-like-inverted-qr-codes/

    Posted by patrick | July 20, 2010, 4:28 pm

  12. After converting this to black and white it was more readable:
    “Happy Christmas from all of us at Barclays”

    Posted by Mark | October 15, 2010, 10:01 pm

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