alt.hn

4/1/2025 at 4:19:56 PM

Ask HN: Could you help me find an old post?

by billconan

4/3/2025 at 3:58:58 PM

To piggyback, there was a thread a while back about a python library that would generate QR code images.

Not just the thing where the QR code is blown up so large you can insert a corporate logo, but you'd feed it a source image and it would make the image itself into a QR code.

I thought I'd bookmarked it but cannot find it and searching around has only found me the type of QR code generator I detailed earlier in the post, which doesn't look like an actual raster image.

(Apparently it dealt better with logos and shapes than full on photos of people but was capable)

by firefax

4/4/2025 at 11:03:14 AM

It's not Python, but this might still fit your bill:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30162233

by InfiniteLoup

4/4/2025 at 12:22:14 PM

That explains why I wasn't finding it previously, ty

by firefax