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Quote from: SheriffBass on February 17, 2021, 11:15:01 AM

So it’s in this format: A1;B2;C.....20 numbers....;....153 numbers

I don't any remember such format used on paper wallet

Quote from: SheriffBass on February 17, 2021, 11:15:01 AM

It’s on my old phone code scanner history, speaking of scanners/ printers can I somehow access/ regenerate a code from the printing history if it’s stored somewhere on an old drive??

I doubt it. IMO it's only possible if,
1. The QR code scanner software store history of the scanned QR code
2. The history itself isn't encrypted with android keystore
3. The file which contain history isn't overwritten

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Quote from: SheriffBass on February 15, 2021, 10:29:16 AM

Hello All,

Wondering if I had an old bitcoin paper wallet QR code scanned, never recognized by a generic basic code scanner yet saved in the scanner's history as a few letters and a string of numbers, any way I can reconstruct this QR code from these letters and numbers to a QR code readable by a proper bitcoin paper wallet scanner?

Thank you,

Of course, just feed the string to any qr code generator.

You need to know how the text of the qr code is shown in the history, of course. What you have written so far does not sound like a private key.

Maybe do a few test strings with a qr code generator and your scanner app and see how the test strings look in your history.

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Quote from: NotATether on February 17, 2021, 07:21:40 AM

Quote from: SheriffBass on February 15, 2021, 01:42:14 PM

It's a letternumber;letternumber;letternumber; then a string of numbers.....

Do you mean the first three characters could either be letters or numbers, like A1B12345 or ABC12345, or do you mean there is a number and semicolon three times such as A1;B2;C3;12345 ?

Also clarify how you managed to access the scanner's history. Is there some vendor software that shows you this (I assume you're using Windows), or does the scanner have some kind of removeable storage card that you can insert in a computer to read the history? Huh

So it’s in this format: A1;B2;C.....20 numbers....;....153 numbers
It’s on my old phone code scanner history, speaking of scanners/ printers can I somehow access/ regenerate a code from the printing history if it’s stored somewhere on an old drive??

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Quote from: SheriffBass on February 15, 2021, 01:42:14 PM

It's a letternumber;letternumber;letternumber; then a string of numbers.....

Do you mean the first three characters could either be letters or numbers, like A1B12345 or ABC12345, or do you mean there is a number and semicolon three times such as A1;B2;C3;12345 ?

Also clarify how you managed to access the scanner's history. Is there some vendor software that shows you this (I assume you're using Windows), or does the scanner have some kind of removeable storage card that you can insert in a computer to read the history? Huh

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I would think that given that it couldn't read the code properly... whatever it "saved" is most likely garbage data... so converting that back into a QRcode and then rescanning it, would simply yield the same garbage... "GIGO" Undecided

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Quote from: coinableS on February 15, 2021, 10:49:17 AM

I am having trouble understanding your question, but sounds like no. You need more than a few letters and numbers for a bitcoin address, whether it's for a QR code or something else you need the full address to be able to use it.

So the scanner couldn't read the code ( errored) however stored what it thought was a text QRcode in the form off a letternumber;letternumber;letternumber; then a string of numbers....
my question is can I reverse these letters/ numbers the scanner recorded/ saw into the original QR code? and then rescan it with the proper Bitcoin paper wallet scanner to get the wallet keys?
Thank you,

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Quote from: NotATether on February 15, 2021, 11:41:53 AM

Do the letters and numbers have any semblance to some format you might recognize, like base58 address, private key WIF, hexadecimal, something that might look like an ID or page number, and such? Huh

Without knowing it's format, you can't attempt any kind of recovery with the data.

Quote from: PawGo on February 15, 2021, 11:26:55 AM

Try this: https://merricx.github.io/qrazybox/

This tool is not useful for OP because he doesn't have a damaged QR code, just a bunch of characters that came from one.

It's a letternumber;letternumber;letternumber; then a string of numbers.....

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Do the letters and numbers have any semblance to some format you might recognize, like base58 address, private key WIF, hexadecimal, something that might look like an ID or page number, and such? Huh

Without knowing it's format, you can't attempt any kind of recovery with the data.

Quote from: PawGo on February 15, 2021, 11:26:55 AM

Try this: https://merricx.github.io/qrazybox/

This tool is not useful for OP because he doesn't have a damaged QR code, just a bunch of characters that came from one.

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Quote from: SheriffBass on February 15, 2021, 10:29:16 AM

Hello All,

Wondering if I had an old bitcoin paper wallet QR code scanned, never recognized by a generic basic code scanner yet saved in the scanner's history as a few letters and a string of numbers, any way I can reconstruct this QR code from these letters and numbers to a QR code readable by a proper bitcoin paper wallet scanner?

Thank you,

Try this: https://merricx.github.io/qrazybox/

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There's a topic here on pretty much the similar problem.

The idea is that the more characters are missing the time (and energy) to brute force it rises exponentially easily getting beyond anything useful ( 3 * 10^13 years if 12 characters are known )
And if you also don't know the correct position of those characters, it gets even more difficult/lengthy.

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I am having trouble understanding your question, but sounds like no. You need more than a few letters and numbers for a bitcoin address, whether it's for a QR code or something else you need the full address to be able to use it.

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Hello All,

Wondering if I had an old bitcoin paper wallet QR code scanned, never recognized by a generic basic code scanner yet saved in the scanner's history as a few letters and a string of numbers, any way I can reconstruct this QR code from these letters and numbers to a QR code readable by a proper bitcoin paper wallet scanner?

Thank you,

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