Raiden38 2 Report post Posted December 7, 2017 Newest version of TB's has a QR code that you can scan. It would make it easier to entering them as discovery them when doing a cache. Thanks! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
0 Nic Hubbard 637 Report post Posted December 7, 2017 Can you show me a link to one of these new ones? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
0 Raiden38 2 Report post Posted December 7, 2017 https://shop.geocaching.com/default/new-geocaching-qr-travel-bugr-black.html Unless it's something else that I don't understand... I saw one in a cache and thought that it's a great idea! 1 Nic Hubbard reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
0 Raiden38 2 Report post Posted February 7, 2018 Hi Nic, Any updates on this? I found a few TB this week end that had QRCodes on it. Would make it much easier then entering all the letters. I'm pushing my luck here, but I know that some apps can recognise letters and numbers from the camera. Perhaps if there is an API availble for it, you would be able to just put the TB near the camera and it will decode the letters/numbers?.. If not, just a QR Code reader would be nice! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
0 Nic Hubbard 637 Report post Posted February 7, 2018 2 hours ago, Raiden38 said: Hi Nic, Any updates on this? I found a few TB this week end that had QRCodes on it. Would make it much easier then entering all the letters. I'm pushing my luck here, but I know that some apps can recognise letters and numbers from the camera. Perhaps if there is an API availble for it, you would be able to just put the TB near the camera and it will decode the letters/numbers?.. If not, just a QR Code reader would be nice! QR Code reading is easy and will be in the next release (4.0.1). OCR text conversion isn't as easy so I will explore this for a future release. 2 Saved by God's grace and Raiden38 reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
0 rragan 200 Report post Posted February 8, 2018 The TBScan app can OCR trackables, verify validity of scanned code and more. OCR is a hard problem. I've beta tested TBScan and watch it improve but it is a complex thing and you'll never get it fully accurate. I'm ok with a separate app devoted to that. 1 Raiden38 reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
0 Raiden38 2 Report post Posted February 8, 2018 Nic, this is great news, thanks so much. Can’t wait to try it. Do you need something? I have a TB at home with a QR code, if you need data or testing. As for OCR, I did’nt know about TBScan (like rragan suggested), I will try it out, thanks! However, if someday you which to use OCR to to recognize the TB codes, I suggest you do it in the app and not outside as rragan suggested. There is no need to build an separate app with the same features then another app that already exist. The idea is to be able to quickly scan a code directly from Cachly. Thanks again! Steven Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
0 Nic Hubbard 637 Report post Posted February 8, 2018 33 minutes ago, Raiden38 said: Do you need something? I have a TB at home with a QR code, if you need data or testing. No, I have TB's with QR codes for testing, but thank you. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
0 jvsquared 0 Report post Posted March 4, 2018 On 2/7/2018 at 5:32 PM, Nic Hubbard said: QR Code reading is easy and will be in the next release (4.0.1). OCR text conversion isn't as easy so I will explore this for a future release. I have version 4.0.1 but don't see anything in the trackable logging for QRreading. Where can I do this? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
0 Nic Hubbard 637 Report post Posted March 5, 2018 18 hours ago, jvsquared said: I have version 4.0.1 but don't see anything in the trackable logging for QRreading. Where can I do this? It will be included in 4.1. 4.0.1 was needed for bug fixes. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Newest version of TB's has a QR code that you can scan. It would make it easier to entering them as discovery them when doing a cache. Thanks!
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