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This looks super cool but I could only get 10/21 to scan with the classic zxing scanner (>100M downloads), and 3 of those took a bunch of playing with camera angles and distance, so I'd recommend against using anything too fancy for real world barcodes.

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Thanks for trying it out! I definitely agree, the fancier it gets the harder it is to scan so these should not be used for real world stuff where reliability is important.

I basically only tested these on my own phone, a pixel 7 with default camera app, so I'm not surprised people with different hardware/software are getting varied results. I think I might try to automate testing using different scanners if I can figure that out.

Pixel 8, about half of the codes work.

Hmm, yes, I did not try these but I have noticed that my default phone app in my S22 is freakishly fast at detecting QR codes, something I never remember that zxing was.

Does anyone know if these are today implemented in neural networks or something? Specialized hardware? Or just very well optimized. Sometimes it feels like only 1 frame in the camera is enough, and distance, angle, lighting and focus is not important.

I'm pretty sure the decoding is done on each frame individually, so as long as you get a single good frame, you scan it

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