From 925af7061f05daf3b78d437210d828277fc2b4aa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: boombuler <boombuler@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2017 11:34:18 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Added example to README.md

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 README.md | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 9fe5be5..81edd15 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -12,6 +12,36 @@ This is a package for GO which can be used to create different types of barcodes
 * QR Codes
 * 2 of 5
 
+## Example ##
+
+This is a simple example on how to create a QR-Code and write it to a png-file
+```go
+package main
+
+import (
+	"image/png"
+	"os"
+
+	"github.com/boombuler/barcode"
+	"github.com/boombuler/barcode/qr"
+)
+
+func main() {
+	// Create the barcode
+	qrCode, _ := qr.Encode("Hello World", qr.M, qr.Auto)
+
+	// Scale the barcode to 200x200 pixels
+	qrCode, _ = barcode.Scale(qrCode, 200, 200)
+
+	// create the output file
+	file, _ := os.Create("qrcode.png")
+	defer file.Close()
+
+	// encode the barcode as png
+	png.Encode(file, qrCode)
+}
+```
+
 ## Documentation ##
 See [GoDoc](https://godoc.org/github.com/boombuler/barcode)