Why Are QR Codes With Capital Letters Smaller Than QR Codes With Lower-case Letters?

QR codes with capital letters are smaller than those with lowercase letters because uppercase codes use Alphanumeric mode, which is more efficient, requiring fewer bits per character (11 bits for two characters) compared to Byte mode used by lowercase (8 bits per character). For the same URL, this results in less data, hence a smaller QR code.

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