Richard ... they are by different maintainers. They also are built with
completely different underlying technologies... creating a bitmap is easy,
deciphering one is difficult and may not be necessary in the same workflow and
there may be different compiled code available optimized for different
The goal of opencv is to provide bindings to 'OpenCV' Computer Vision
Library. Hence a much wider scope than just reading qrcodes. qrcode just
focusses creating different qrcodes. The fact that they can use each other
to test themselves is a happy coincidence.
ir. Thierry Onkelinx
Statisticus / St
Why are these functins in two different packages?
On the surface it looks like qrcode is a transformation function and opencv is
its inverse.
> On Nov 7, 2023, at 14:55, Thierry Onkelinx wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> The qrcode package converts text into a qrcode image. The opencv package is
> able t