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How to Embed a QR Code when you export PDFs from Google form responses

Google Form To Document add-on allows you to generate professional looking documents (Invoices , Certificates , Business Documents etc). You can also generate and embed a QR Code.Please read below to learn more.

Embed Native QR Code

Follow the below instructions for generating QR code .

This should be used inside Template Document to be able to embed the Image in the Final Generated document.

Basic Format to be used inside Template Document =Qrcode(<data>) or =Qrcode(<data>,bgColor=#D68683,color=#faf5f5)

note

Use the formula in a completely separate Paragraph without any text.

Examples: =Qrcode({{Response Number}})

=Qrcode({{Response Number}},bgColor=#D68683,color=#faf5f5)

Please note that at this point only background and foreground color (only hex color codes) can be customized using this .

Embed QR Code using Embed Image

You can also generate and embed QR code using the Embed Image syntax while creating documents from form submissions

Examples:

{{ Embed Image, https://qrcode.tec-it.com/API/QRCode?data=https%3a%2f%2fqrcode.tec-it.com?code={{Response Number}}&errorcorrection=H&color=0a5c2a&quietzone=5, 120, 120 }}

{{ Embed Image, https://api.qrserver.com/v1/create-qr-code/?size=150x150&data=https%3a%2f%2fqrcode.tec-it.com?code={{Response Number}}, 150, 150 }}

{{ Embed Image, https://api.dub.co/qr?url=https://github.com/dubinc/dub, 120, 120 }}

The websites referred for QR code and Bar code API are random and in no way we promote or recommend them . You can use any other public facing apis to generate and embed QRCode or Bar code.