QR codes from user

[Kiko]

Hi,
Two questions here:
Am I able to let the user send a picture to the bot, and share it with an external site in order to get an answer/conversion? The picture could arrive from Telegram, Web or Messenger.

This is the case: User must capture a QR code from a product. I want the bot get a reference number from that picture, which would guide the bot to get records from a database and offer proper options in the flow to the client.

Do you know about any QR service with API which could be integrated in Flow XO
Thank you!

[kcfl]

You’d have to use the Bot > New File trigger. This is because FB doesn’t have a barcode scanner build in.

You’d have to ask your users to send you a file which is the picture of the QR code. Then you can use the Email action to send that file to your email. You can then have Zapier receive that email and parse the barcode with BarCloud.

BarCloud is the only Zapier integration I know of that does barcode but you’d have to switch your inventory and asset management to BarCloud.

But since you’re able to send the barcode image to anything using the email (or Email then Zapier) you should be able to implement an API somewhere to read this image and reply back.

[Kiko]

Thank you Khashayar, that is a good point. I will follow your recommendation.
I want also to check possible delays using emails and Zapier trigger.