Paperify

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

Sample

Requirements

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.

Installation

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

Usage

# 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

Recommendations

Multiple files

Use tarballs and gzip to store and compress you data.

tar cvfz files.tgz file1.txt file2.txt

Encryption

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

gpg --symmetric file.txt

Then use file.txt.gpg in paperify.

License

Peperify is licensed in GPL-3.0