A Review on QR Code Analysis

“Quick Response” (QR code) is a matrix code. As compared to one dimensional barcodes it must store huge volume of information and using any handheld devices like Smartphones it must be decrypted at high speed. These two points are taken into consideration while designing two dimensional matrix codes. When a bar-code contains vital information or privacy information, the chance of security becomes a very important aspect. Because QR codes merely feature a square bar-code with a distinctive pattern, individuals are not aware if the code can take them to respectable information or misguide them to a website loaded with malware. Now of late, a QR code is applied in several application streams associated with promoting, security, lecturers etc. and gain popularity at a really high pace. Gradually more people are getting familiar with this technology and use it accordingly. The popularity of QR code grows swiftly with the growth of smartphone users and thus the QR code is briskly arriving at high levels of acceptance worldwide. With the wide implementation of QR code, the protection feature of QR code is serious, like data leakage and data alteration. This paper emphasizes on the analysis of QR code and its applications. Keywords: QR Codes, Quick Response Codes, QR Code Analysis.