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Status: Untriaged
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OS: Android
Pri: 2
Type: Feature



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Missing qr scanner feature

Reported by davidmax...@gmail.com, Sep 2 2017

Issue description

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. try to use chrome to scan a qr code (or bar code) like on iOS.

What is the expected behavior?
Same UI as on iOS.

What went wrong?
No such functionality.

Did this work before? No 

Chrome version: 60.0.3112.113  Channel: canary
OS Version: 6.0.1
Flash Version:
 
Cc: nyerramilli@chromium.org candr...@chromium.org
Labels: Needs-triage-Mobile
Thanks for the report.

Considering this as feature request, requesting dev team to look into this and update.
Labels: -Type-Bug Type-Feature
I would like to mention that iOS now has a QR Code scanner built into its camera, which is the ideal solution.
As such, this feature in Chrome is redundant on iOS, but is (IMO) sorely needed on the majority of Android phones - the camera isn't a standard app on Android, nor are any 'standard' apps, but I imagine Chrome is the most installed app on phones, and it, together with Samsung Internet and WeChat (which both have one built in), would cover the vast majority of phones.
Status: Untriaged (was: Unconfirmed)
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Setting Feature Requests as: Untriaged 
I noticed that 'Lens' can scan qr-codes, but it only works when online, so that is (mostly) useless for scanning wifi qr-codes. Android really needs a qr-code scanner that is both built-in and works offline.

Ref:
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/websearch/DH947cNhSkc;context-place=topicsearchin/websearch/qr$20code

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