Use QR codes to backup your data on papers. Simply backup your files, print them and store them in a safe place.

Make sure you have these binaries installed on your system.

• qrencode (qrencode)
• convert (imagemagick)
• zbarimg (zbar >= 0.23.1) only for decoding with digitallify.sh

Zbar: Binary support is just added in zbar 0.23.1 and not supported in earlier versions. Please verify that your zbar version is higher or equal to 0.23.1. You can do that by running

zbarimg --version
0.23.1

You can download and build zbar from github.com/mchehab/zbar/. Note that zbar is not required for paperify.sh It is only required for digitallify.sh decoding.

To install the requirements you can use Homebrew.

brew install coreutils qrencode zbarimg

These are just bash scripts. There is no need to install them.

You can either use git to clone this repo or download it in zip.

git clone https://github.com/alisinabh/paperify.git && cd paperify
# --- OR ---
wget https://github.com/alisinabh/paperify/archive/master.zip -O paperify.zip && \
     unzip paperify.zip && cd paperify-master

Or you can use paperify's Docker image at alisinabh/paperify. More details below.

# Creates FILE-qr directory with generated qr codes inside.
# Then you can print those files and store them.
./paperify.sh FILE


# Reads all files inside the DIRECTORY which you have all your
# scanned pages inside. Make sure the file namings are correct 
./digitalify.sh OUTPUT_FILE DIRECTORY

You can mount your files at /target in paperify's docker container. Then run paperify.

For simplicity, You can just copy the bellow commands which will mount your current directory automatically.

# To Paperify
# FIRST: cd into the folder that your file is in
docker run -v$(pwd):/target alisinabh/paperify FILE

# To Digitallify
# First cd into the folder that your scanned images are in
docker run -v$(pwd):/target --entrypoint=/paperify/digitallify.sh alisinabh/paperify OUTPUT_FILE .

Use tarballs and gzip to store and compress your data.

tar cvfz files.tgz file1.txt file2.txt

To protect your data you can encrypt them using gpg (GnuPG).

gpg --symmetric file.txt

Then use file.txt.gpg in paperify.

Peperify is licensed in GPL-3.0

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On ubuntu and on Mint

sudo apt-get install python-zbar libzbar-dev python-qrtools
pip install libzbar-cffi==0.2.1