High payload information hiding schemes with the good visual quality of stego images are suitable for steganographic applications such as online content distribution systems. This paper proposes a novel steganographic scheme based on the (7, 4) Hamming code for digital images.The proposed scheme embeds a segment of seven secret bits into a group of seven cover pixels at a time. The experimental results show that the proposed scheme achieves a double embedding payload and a slightly lower visual quality of stego images compared with the related works.