ISO/IEC 18004
The primary international standard defining QR Code symbology — symbol structure, encoding, error correction, masking, and decoding. Published by ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 31, currently in its 2015 (3rd) edition covering versions 1-40 and Micro QR.
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