Generate QR code from a report

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December 22, 2021
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A chemistry laboratory had purchased quite few licenses of Adobe InDesign after receiving a tip from a sales person that it can help them to layout their reports, add patient/customer details in the report, add lab test results in, and let InDesign generate a QR code out of the lot.

To my knowledge the Generate QR code feature in InDesign will not be able to collect all details and lab test results from the page, the feature rather is limted to what we feed it within the few listed options below…

Now the lab has InDesign licenses and wanted to get trained on how to use it. The question is how can they generate QR codes in a way that suits their needs, is there a third party plug-in/extension that do so?

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manal shanableh

Legend

publish online also is good idea! gennerate a QR code for the published online results. they can view onlinne and and can download as PDF.

manal shanableh

Legend

Dear Mr. Zaid,

I think the best idea is to upload the results as pdf on a server or cloud storage and the QR code will lead them to the results as pdf, they ca download.

also they can publish online the results, the link can be Qr code.. they can view or download the results ad records.

in all ways the results cannot be plain text.

Manal

Zaid Al Hilali

Author

Community Expert

I'm not sure I understood you correctly, are you saying that the plain text report to be uploaded to the cloud, at the same time the InDesign user will generate a QR code for the URL only?

What I understood from the chemist lab, they want all report content to be incorporated in the QR code, I don't know whether this is possible with a third party plug-in or not. Moreover, they are a government sector, so uploading reports to the cloud is out of question I'm afraid.

Dave Creamer of IDEAS

Community Expert

I appreciate the positive responses.

Perhaps it is better for me to wait till I conduct the training for the staff to get a much closer understanding of the full scenario and post my findings back here.

I anticipated an answer that direct me to InDesign plug-in of some sort that will gather data off the page and eventually generates a QR code with all details, but this was more of a hope than reality.

Hi Zaid,

It almost sounds as if you want something like Acrobat's barcode feature that encapsulates the input data into a readable barcode. While it wouldn't encode the underlying PDF info, it would encode any field input info.

Is this what you are looking for in InDesign?

David Creamer: Community Expert (ACI and ACE 1995-2023)

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