Create QR-Code in vector image

Question

I can successfully create QR Code PNG images with ZXing but there is no easy way to get the output as SVG or EPS.

How can I create a vector image from the BitMatrix object that is created by the QRCodeWriter?

Answer 1

You can even do it only with zxing withou additional libraries:

QRCodeWriter qrCodeWriter = new QRCodeWriter();
Map<EncodeHintType, Object> hints = new HashMap<>();
hints.put(EncodeHintType.ERROR_CORRECTION, ErrorCorrectionLevel.M);
hints.put(EncodeHintType.CHARACTER_SET, StandardCharsets.UTF_8.name());

BitMatrix bitMatrix = qrCodeWriter.encode(payload, BarcodeFormat.QR_CODE, 543, 543, hints);

StringBuilder sbPath = new StringBuilder();
int width = bitMatrix.getWidth();
int height = bitMatrix.getHeight();
int rowSize = bitMatrix.getRowSize();
BitArray row = new BitArray(width);
for(int y = 0; y < height; ++y) {
    row = bitMatrix.getRow(y, row);
    for(int x = 0; x < width; ++x) {
        if (row.get(x)) {
            sbPath.append(" M"+x+","+y+"h1v1h-1z");
        }
    }
}

StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
sb.append("<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>\n");
sb.append("<svg xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\" version=\"1.1\" viewBox=\"0 0 ").append(width).append(" ").append(height).append("\" stroke=\"none\">\n");
sb.append("<style type=\"text/css\">\n");
sb.append(".black {fill:#000000;}\n");
sb.append("</style>\n");
sb.append("<path class=\"black\"  d=\"").append(sbPath.toString()).append("\"/>\n");
sb.append("</svg>\n");

Please note that the solution above is much more efficient in terms of memory consumption than the one using Batik's DOM.

Answer 2

Old question I know, but for anyone that comes along looking for how to do this...it's pretty easy to connect ZXing to JFreeSVG (http://www.jfree.org/jfreesvg), for example:

package org.jfree.demo;

import com.google.zxing.BarcodeFormat;
import com.google.zxing.WriterException;
import com.google.zxing.common.BitMatrix;
import com.google.zxing.qrcode.QRCodeWriter;
import java.awt.Color;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import org.jfree.graphics2d.svg.SVGGraphics2D;
import org.jfree.graphics2d.svg.SVGUtils;

public class QRCodes {

    public static void main(String[] args) throws WriterException, IOException {
        QRCodeWriter qrCodeWriter = new QRCodeWriter();
        BitMatrix bitMatrix = qrCodeWriter.encode("http://www.jfree.org/jfreesvg", 
                BarcodeFormat.QR_CODE, 160, 160);
        int w = bitMatrix.getWidth();
        SVGGraphics2D g2 = new SVGGraphics2D(w, w);
        g2.setColor(Color.BLACK);
    for (int xIndex = 0; xIndex < w; xIndex = xIndex + bitMatrix.getRowSize()) {
        for (int yIndex = 0; yIndex < w; yIndex = yIndex + bitMatrix.getRowSize()) {
            if (bitMatrix.get(xIndex, yIndex)) {
                g2.fillRect(xIndex, yIndex, bitMatrix.getRowSize(), bitMatrix.getRowSize());

            }
        }
    }

        SVGUtils.writeToSVG(new File("qrtest.svg"), g2.getSVGElement());
    }

}