QR code (2D barcode) coding and decoding algorithms?

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Published on 2008-10-23T22:12:43Z Indexed on 2010/04/05 8:33 UTC
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Looking for free/opensource code or description of algorithms to code (simple) and decode (hard) the 2D barcode QR code.

It doesn't seem like a trivial problem, but it's so popular in Japan that there must be something already available...

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