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What's the benefit of QR over just having text in an OCR-friendly representation?

The processing power available to a smartphone is improving (not just locally: cloud-based contact management would benefit greatly from business card scanning), and making text look good is the foundation of print design, while QR codes always seem tacky if they're printed at a size appropriate for scanning.



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