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This is a beautiful idea. How much information does the QR code carry, and how much is transfer boilerplate?


The maximum storage capacity seems to be 2953 bytes ([1]). Although that's with error correction level L, so you can only read it as long as you have 93% of all codewords.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_code#Storage


Author here. The amount of data per QR depends on the QR size specified. If I remember correctly, its about 10 bytes per code in the default config (QR code size of 30). Transfer boilerplate is a few codes in the start to setup the conversation and a FIN like message at the end.




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