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+# barcoder
+Cheap, nasty tool to put clipboard or stdin into a barcode (so you can copy to a smartphone)
+
+I really just developed this for myself. You're welcome to debug it, package it, redistribute it, refactor it...
+You could re-jig the whole thing to use `prison` instead of wastefully spawning extra processes.
+
+But for what I wanted, it works.
+Example setup for klipper:
+* Right-click on klipper in your system tray
+* Select "Configure" from the context menu
+* In the "Actions" tab, under "Action List", add a new action.
+* For the regular expression, enter `.*` to capture everything.
+* For description, write "Show Barcode" (or whatever you want)
+* Add a command. In the command entry field, write `echo "%s"|barcoder` (where "barcoder" is the path to your barcoder executable)
+
+Now, any time that you want klipper to generate a barcode like it used to in the good old days (a couple years ago):
+* Left-click klipper in your system tray
+* hover over the clip you want to share
+* Press the little square icon which is supposed to represent clipboard actions
+* Click "Show Barcode" (this is your description from earlier)
+* Open your phone's barcode scanner and point it at the barcode
+* voila, depending on your phone's setup, you now have the text info on your phone ready to paste where you want
+
+To make:
+* follow your normal qmake procedure
+* OR
+* use qtcreator
+* adapt to your fancy cmake thingy
+
+Requirements:
+ NEEDED libQt5Widgets.so.5
+ NEEDED libQt5Gui.so.5
+ NEEDED libQt5Core.so.5
+ NEEDED libstdc++.so.6
+ NEEDED libgcc_s.so.1
+ NEEDED libc.so.6
+
+ If you have qt5 installed, you can probably run this with no issues. I'm lazy and just stuck it into /usr/bin or some other place
+ in my path.
+
+ To get the actual barcoding functionality there are two additional binaries you need, for now: `dmtxwrite` and `qrencode`.
+ You can install both on ubuntu or similar by typing:
+`sudo apt-get install dmtx-utils qrencode`

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