PDF QR Code

As an alternative to your menu card on paper, you can create a QR code that leads to a digital menu in PDF format.

You can even create a single QR Code linking to a multilingual menu. Just translate the menu, create a PDF file of each language and generate a multi-language QR Code. Your guests will be happy to select from the menu of your local food in their own language. A sticker on the table or a little board on the wall displaying your multilingual menu will make your customer’s experience even better.

Your company has a season catalog or a large brochure that you have already designed and printed thousands of copies to distribute in the real world. Why don’t you create a QR Code linking to this catalog in a PDF file instead?

You could even print stickers or postcards with the PDF QR Code and your call to action. Or place a large poster on the glass door when your shop is closed and link a QR Code to your catalog or latest offers.

Also, if some information (like price lists) becomes obsolete you can always send your users to the latest version of the catalog :)

PDF QR Codes help you to market your books. Instead of just filling the back cover with a brief synopsis, use a PDF QR code as well and direct your readers to a more comprehensive, more meaningful excerpt of the new book.

You can also set a link to a web shop in the PDF QR Code if the interested reader would like to buy your book at a later date.

Instruction manuals are those ugly, thick, multilingual, black and white booklets that your customers have already thrown away or miss them right when they actually need them..

You could very easily add a QR Code on the packaging (or even on their products) linking to a PDF with the manual. This will save lots of paper and avoid frustration when the user finally decides to read the manual.

With Call-2-Action Buttons you can not only provide a link to the PDF file, but also links to video tutorials, for example.

Attached to attractions or exhibits in museums, QR Codes provide a bridge to valuable information about the artworks.

Or on the back of a map, QR codes can lead to detailed descriptions of places worth seeing.

Offering tourists the possibility to download a PDF (in their own language) with useful info is also an interesting use case. Documents can be constantly updated and improved. No animals will be harmed and no paper will be wasted.

Another cool thing about downloading a PDF is that once it is downloaded it stays in your phone and you can check it out even without 3G. This becomes an interesting feature when you have no roaming or (best case scenario) no signal. This will mean you are really on holidays :)

Paper publications have lots of virtues that digital media will never have, however, they will always be limited in space and expensive to print and distribute.

If you publish a traditional magazine and you just need to save your latest issue in PDF format and you can grow your audience.

You can produce materials linking to the latest edition of your publication and place them in strategic places.

Did you know that you can also scan a QR Code with the camera of your iPad?

Distributing paper copies among your students is a common practice for teachers and students at school and university.

Sharing documentation can be fast, easy and again, paperless if the teacher shares a QR Code linking to PDF documentation.

Probably drawing a QR Code on a blackboard using chalk won’t be an easy task, but QR Codes can very helpful in class ;)

To avoid filling a presentation with an overwhelming amount of information, you can embed your PDF QR Code into your slides or share it with whoever is watching. They can scan the QR Code and have all the information you provided during the conference/presentation or meeting.