Announcing - Optiscan!
Airsource are delighted to announce that Optiscan is now available for purchase.
Optiscan is a professional quality QR Code tool, featuring by far the fastest scanner available on the App Store. Optiscan automatically locates and scans QR codes in the camera viewfinder. No more failed scans or blurry barcodes. Scans well from paper, monitors and other device screens.
- Share contacts, web addresses and text with other devices.
- Scan a wide variety of QR code data formats, including locations, email addresses and phone numbers.
- Save specific QR codes for quick sharing — perfect for sharing your business card.
- Keeps a history of QR codes created and shared for easy recall.
- Want to scan or generate codes in French? Japanese? No problem. Optiscan supports UTF-8, ISO-8859, and Shift-JIS.
- Select the contact details you want to send, to ensure the right people get the right information.
- Safari lets you save images (tap and hold the image) to the photo gallery - and Optiscan will decode them for you.
Optiscan runs without a network connection, and keeps your data private. Why put up with anything less?
Optiscan is available right now from the AppStore, priced at $4.99, £2.99, or €3.99 If you’d like to review the application, then promotional iTunes codes are available. Please email, mentioning the website where your review will be posted.
February 6th, 2009 at 9:01 pm
Once I have a code saved on my iPhone, how can I get the barcode off my iPhone - e.g. email it to somebody. I can’t work out how to do this… Thanks.
February 6th, 2009 at 10:11 pm
Hi Adam,
At the moment you can’t save a barcode into the gallery for sending via email - we unfortunately just didn’t have the time to add that feature in this release! It’s a high priority for our first update.
Once we’ve updated it, tapping on the barcode image will give you the option of saving the image to the gallery, just like in Safari.
Best regards,
Nick
February 6th, 2009 at 10:28 pm
Although you can’t save a barcode to the gallery for sending, you can use the normal screen capture to grab the whole screen and save it as an image in the gallery. It’s a bit complex though.
First, get Optiscan so that it’s showing the barcode you want to email. Press and hold the Home button, then press and release the Power button - the screen will flash - and finally release Home. Go to the Gallery in the Photos app and a screenshot will be there. Tap on it, and you get the option to email the image.
This is obviously what might be called “sub-optimal”. As Nick says, we’ll be making the process simpler in the next release.
February 9th, 2009 at 4:54 am
Thank you for your great works.
I could not create bar code image from my contact list.
Optiscan suddenly died when I have selected contact data.
Probably, I think there is data that Optiscan could not support in my contact list.
Do you have reports of similar situation from other users?
Best regards.
February 9th, 2009 at 9:38 am
Hi Wori,
Can you please give us the details of the contact you were trying to send? Maybe a screenshot of the contact details? We’ve have made an effort to support every contact detail so we would like to know if there is something failing and we will fix it as soon as possible!
If you want to take a screenshot, you can do it by holding down the power button and pressing the “application exit” button. This will flash the screen and save an image to the gallery. Then we will try to repeat the error.
February 10th, 2009 at 12:26 am
Hi Nick,
Thank you for quick reply.
I found easy way to confirm this problem.
Please try to load contact which mail is set.
#It occurs regardless of ‘Contact defaults’ settings in Preference.
Best regards,
February 10th, 2009 at 1:19 am
I have been using all of the QR code apps for the iPhone since they started coming out on the APP store. NONE works as well nor as fast as Optiscan. And the best part about the app: hands free. You simply point at the code and it recognizes the code in the image; no need to take a picture and picture and wait (and then retake the picture, etc.). This is a really good application.
My only compliant is that I would like to have a settign which says “When code recognized, just launch URL.” Much more useful than showing me the code and having to click on it.
We are really into QR Codes (http://icandy.ricohinnovations.com) so it’s not like we’re casual users. I’ve also been “tweeting” a lot about Optiscan since I got it last week (find me with @jamois).
Keep up the good work.
February 12th, 2009 at 12:55 am
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February 12th, 2009 at 11:23 am
Hi Jamey,
As per your suggestion, we’ve added an auto-open URL feature which will be out in the next release (early next week, all being well).
Thanks for the feedback!
February 12th, 2009 at 8:51 pm
Hi Nick,
I apologize for my incorrect report.
I managed contact list with google sync to share gmail and iPhone.
In this case, some contact management apps could not handle contact with email correctly.
I tried and confirmed this behavior (suddenly dead when load contact with email) on other apps.
So this problem is NOT caused by Optiscan.
Best regards,
February 13th, 2009 at 11:40 am
Thanks wori, have now duplicated the crash and will have a fix out next week.
Cheers!
February 16th, 2009 at 6:27 pm
Hi guys. First of all.. GREAT APP!!
I’m not sure if I’m not doing this correctly, but I have two issues that I’d like to clear out with you guys.
1) On the screenshots of the App, scanned barcodes were categorized based on what they were (contacts, notes or URL). However, I’ve tried scanning a couple of V-Card codes and they are stored as Notes. Are the codes being generated incorrectly or is Optiscan note categorizing them right?
2) This leads me to my second issue, if I were to scan a v-card (recognized as a contact), is there a way of directly exporting this to my iPhone’s native phonebook. This is the one I use for contact admin and calls.
I appreciate your help
February 16th, 2009 at 7:15 pm
Hi Jon,
In principle we do support VCard, though not generating them. Normally scanned VCards should appear as contacts, which you can of course add to your iPhone’s native contacts using either the “Create New” or “Add to Existing” actions.
If you are scanning VCards and they are appearing as notes, it’s possible you’ve found a bug. The best course of action would be to select “Report Issue” on any scanned VCard items. This will generate an email to us containing the content of the QR code you scanned, so we can track down the problem.
Cheers
February 18th, 2009 at 6:21 pm
Your approach to the UI is very good and the speed is excellent, but Optiscan sometimes (seriously) crashes my iPhone. The touchscreen and all the controls lock up. I can’t even force quit the app by holding down the home button. The only thing that gets past this hang is a reboot of the iPhone. Are you aware of the problem? It seems to happen when no code is recognized and then you try again a few seconds later.
February 25th, 2009 at 10:49 am
Just wanted to note that we of course contacted Mr Lynn, and we are in the process of working out what causes the crash.
April 10th, 2009 at 7:57 pm
Hi guys. Great app! I show it off every chance I get.
Do you have any plans to support Aztec? or Data Matrix? It appears that the airlines are favoring Aztec for mobile ticketing and CTIA is favoring Data Matrix for mobile coupons.
I’m just looking for additional ways to leverage the application.
April 10th, 2009 at 8:15 pm
Hi Steve - glad you like the app, and thanks for the feedback. We’ve looked at DataMatrix, and we certainly intend to support it, but I can’t give you any timescale on that at present. We are not planning Aztec support - at least not in the near future - though all the airline tickets I’ve seen recently have used PDF417, not Aztec. I doubt the iPhone’s camera would be up to PDF417.
Should the next incarnation of the iPhone have a better camera, we’ll take a close look at what possibilities this opens up - for example, 1D barcodes. While these are readable at present using the Griffin Clarifi case, we made a deliberate decision not to include functionality that wouldn’t be usable by everyone. Experience showed, unfortunately, that we were likely to get negative feedback if we enabled scanning 1D barcodes from people without Clarifi cases who would complain that it didn’t work.
May 29th, 2009 at 3:57 am
This is the fastest QR scanning app I have tried.
Can the app scan a QR code and play music and video off the iPhone storage or perhaps play music and video via iTunes on an iPhone. If so, how should the text in the QR be formatted?
June 30th, 2009 at 11:37 am
Hmm, bought it because it says:
> Optiscan automatically locates and scans QR codes in the camera viewfinder.
But the app just opens the standard camera widget and I have to take a photo.
I’ve tried it with iPhone OS 3.0.
How do you scan without taking a photo?
June 30th, 2009 at 1:05 pm
Allan -we are still waiting for Apple to approve our update. I’ve emailed you privately.
February 19th, 2010 at 1:10 pm
How big is the history log and can it be exported? I am considering using QR barcodes for an inventory function that might sometimes need to be used when no cellphone signal is available and would like to be able to go back later and extract the scans from the log.