# Barcode Reader — Decode a Code From a Photo or Your Camera

> Read a code from a photo, a screenshot or your camera, entirely in your browser.

To read a code from an image, drop in a photo or screenshot, paste from the clipboard, or scan live with your camera. Decoding happens in the page using your device's own processing, so no photograph is uploaded. Blurred and low-contrast photographs are retried at reduced scale and with a hard black-and-white threshold, which recovers most images that fail on a first pass.

**URL:** https://convertto.tech/t/barcode-to-text
**Category:** QR & Barcodes (https://convertto.tech/c/qr-tools)
**Privacy:** Runs entirely in the browser; no upload
**Cost:** Free, no sign-up
**Last updated:** 2026-08-01

## Key facts

- **Privacy:** Camera and decoding run in the page — no image is uploaded
- **Input:** Drop, paste, choose several at once, or scan live
- **Safety:** Decoded links are checked structurally before you open them
- **Cost:** Free, unlimited, no sign-up

## How to use

1. Select your image — the file stays on your device and is never uploaded.
2. Press Run, then download the result when it is ready.

## FAQ

### Which symbologies can it read?

The in-page decoder reads QR codes, including the QR payloads printed on tickets, packaging and posters. Linear retail barcodes such as EAN-13 need a dedicated laser or a native camera app, which most phones already have built into the camera.

### Why does my photo not decode?

Blur, glare at an angle, and a cropped quiet zone are the three usual causes. Fill more of the frame with the code, shoot square to it rather than at an angle, and make sure the blank margin around the pattern is intact.

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