QR Codes

 1import qrcode
 2from PIL import Image, ImageDraw
 3
 4def create_qr_code(data, box_size, border):
 5    qr = qrcode.QRCode(
 6        version=1,
 7        error_correction=qrcode.constants.ERROR_CORRECT_H,  # 30% error correction
 8        box_size=box_size,
 9        border=border,
10    )
11    qr.add_data(data)
12    qr.make()
13    img = qr.make_image(fill_color='black', back_color='white').convert('RGBA')
14    img.save("!qrcode.png")
15    return img
16
17def create_mask(img, squares):
18    mask = Image.new('1', img.size, 0)  # '1' for black and white
19    draw = ImageDraw.Draw(mask)
20    for square in squares:
21        draw.rectangle(square, fill=1)  # fill the defined areas with white
22    mask_img = Image.new('RGBA', img.size, (0, 0, 0, 0))  # create with full transparency
23    mask_img.paste(img, mask=mask)
24    mask_img.save('!qrcode-mask.png')
25
26def main():
27    # Data you want to encode
28    data = "trimad.github.io/post/2023-06-24-qr"
29
30    # Define global variables
31    box_size = 32
32    border = 2
33    padding = border*box_size
34
35    img = create_qr_code(data, box_size, border)
36
37    # Define the size of squares
38    position_pattern = 8*box_size+((border-1)*box_size)``
39
40    # Define coordinates for 8x8 squares at the corners and an additional 5x5 square
41    squares = [
42        (padding, padding, position_pattern-1, position_pattern-1), 
43        (img.size[0] - position_pattern, padding, img.size[0] - padding-1, position_pattern-1), 
44        (padding, img.size[1] - position_pattern, position_pattern-1, img.size[1] - padding-1),
45        (28*box_size+padding, 28*box_size+padding, (28+5)*box_size+padding-1, (28+5)*box_size+padding-1)
46    ]
47
48    create_mask(img, squares)
49
50if __name__ == "__main__":
51    main()