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Anssi Saari, 2026-02-27 13:50:

I'm looking for an app that can scan or more importantly, decode a
barcode or QR code. Not with the camera, from a picture or document or
on screen of the phone. Best case, I'd like the app to grab a screenshot
and if any code found then stuff it on the the clipboard, silently and without a fuss.

Need is to scan the occasional barcode that I get via email, never mind
the whys and wherefores.

Binary Eye can also decode image files, not just images with the camera:

<https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.markusfisch.android.binaryeye>

Just open the "..." menu on the top right and select "Pick image file",
then you can also choose to decode a screenshot which you saved as file
before.
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Arno Welzel wrote:

Binary Eye can also decode image files

At this point, each of us, save for the troll Alan Baker, has proposed at
least one solution, probably all of which will work just fine for the OP.

It's up to the OP to test out our kind heart-felt thoughtful suggestions.
If the OP doesn't report back, then the proposed solutions appear to be:

1. <de.markusfisch.android.binaryeye>
2. <com.google.ar.lens>
3. <com.example.barcodescanner>
4. <com.czlucius.scan
5. <any.splitscreen>

Note: The Alan Baker troll has never owned an Android phone in his life.
His only goal is to troll us and gloat over supposed Apple superiority.
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On 2026-02-28 08:51, Maria Sophia wrote:

Arno Welzel wrote:

Binary Eye can also decode image files

At this point, each of us, save for the troll Alan Baker, has proposed at least one solution, probably all of which will work just fine for the OP.

It's up to the OP to test out our kind heart-felt thoughtful suggestions.
If the OP doesn't report back, then the proposed solutions appear to be:

1. <de.markusfisch.android.binaryeye>
2. <com.google.ar.lens>
3. <com.example.barcodescanner>
4. <com.czlucius.scan
5. <any.splitscreen>

Note: The Alan Baker troll has never owned an Android phone in his life.
His only goal is to troll us and gloat over supposed Apple superiority.

Wow.

You really are completely obsessed with me, aren't you?

:-)
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Jeff Layman <Jeff@invalid.invalid> writes:

On 27/02/2026 18:03, Andy Burns wrote:

Maria Sophia wrote:

Someone else may be able to help you better'n I can. One obvious

way the O/P could do what he wants is with two phones, or a phone and
a tablet, barcodes in general read well from screens when the
brightness is cranked-up.

I don't know anything about Android split-screen "windows" (or even if
they can exist!). Would it be possible to have the email with the QR
code on half the screen, and the front-facing camera with a QR scanner
on the other half, and use a mirror to let the QR scanner see the QR
code on the other half of the screen?

How about two mirrors, one in front of the phone, and one behind. Then
the front of the phone could scan its own display. Possibly the QR would
be backward at this point, I can't work it out.
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mummycullen@gmail-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (MummyChunk) writes:

f your phone has that built in screen search thing ...

Ah, Circle to Search. I've never used before it although I do use
Samsung's similar "AI select", usually for text recognition from
non-selectable text on screen which it usually does very well but it
knows nothing about barcodes or QR codes.

With a quick try "Circle to search" worked and it has a "copy text"
button to get the decoded digits onto the clipboard. So this is a level
of clunkiness that I find reasonable.

As you said, it's not always good, I tried a couple of more times and it
was fine one, failed the other. As in, got an image search for bar codes,
not a decoding of the bar code.

Still, thanks a lot MummyChunk, this is good!
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