PDF QR Codes

One code.
Every version of the file.

Upload the PDF. We host it, the code opens it on any phone, and the next version of the document goes behind the same code.

01

A QR code cannot hold a PDF

It holds a few hundred characters. Every product that advertises a PDF QR code is hosting the file somewhere and putting a link in the code. That is fine, and it is the only way it can work. The real questions are who holds the file and whether you can change it later.

https://qr.sunriseqr.com/f/your-document

What goes behind one

Anything printed in volume, where the document outlives the version of it you had when you went to print.

01

Price lists and catalogs

The list you hand a wholesale buyer changes every quarter. The code on the folder does not have to.

02

Event programs

A speaker drops out the day before. The printed programs are already stacked at the door, and the code on them still shows the right schedule.

03

Instructions and manuals

A code on the box or the product itself, pointing at the current version of the guide rather than whichever one shipped that year.

04

Spec sheets and certificates

Compliance documents, lab results, care instructions. Attach them to the physical thing they describe.

How big can it be

25 MB per file on Plus and Growth, 200 MB on Retail. For context, here is roughly where real documents land.

Text-first PDF, a few pages: under 1 MB.
Brochure with photography: 3 to 15 MB.
Scanned document, dozens of pages: 50 MB and up.
Print-ready packaging artwork: 50 to 200 MB.

Upload it. Print it. Move on.

The next version of the document goes behind the same code.

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