[Electrum-discuss] Support for scanning QR codes

[slush <sl...@ce...>]

Hi all,

one feature I'm really missing in current desktop clients: scanning QR
codes using camera. Although almost every computer has a camera, it
looks like nobody cares about scanning QR codes on desktop (in
contrary to mobile apps, where QR printing/scanning is common).

I had some free time and decided to implement such feature in
Electrum. It's alpha version using 'zbar' library, but it works
nicely. You can find patch against current git version here:
http://pastebin.com/deW2tRLe

Let me know if there's enough interest in such feature. If so, I'll
rearrange my alpha code to something more general (unbound it from Qt
interface, implement parsing of BIP 21 URIs etc) and I'll send merge
request.

slush