Create vCard Business Cards with QR-Codes
How to Create vCard Business Cards with Barcode Studio Some users of Barcode Studio are unsure regarding the correct data format for creating barcodes for so-called 2D code business cards. Such an "electronic” business card encodes the contact data in a QR-Code or a Data Matrix symbol. These codes can be scanned with your smartphone. The business card data is recognized automatically, you will never need to key in contact data manually! Most camera-equipped mobile phones are able to decode QR-Codes on such business cards (Data Matrix is not in common use until now). The example outlined in this post contains vCard sample data (.xls and .csv files) and a setting file for Barcode Studio . This settings file (*.BCS) can be used immediately to create premium quality QR-Codes with Barcode Studio. Creating a vCard Data Format A vCard barcode must follow certain rules, the different elements of a business cards (e.g. the phone number) are tagged with prefixes. Some sample prefix