 UPC/EAN is a family of linear barcodes used at point of sale. The structure of a UPC/EAN barcode consists of leading guard bars, central guard bars and trailing guard bars. The data characters consist of 4 elements comprising 7 unit modules, which encode digits 0-9.UPC codes encode 12 digits and EAN codes encode 13 digits. The first digit in an EAN barcode determines the GS1 country code of the country that the company is based. |
Any of Webscan’s linear verifiers can verify UPC/EAN barcodes. Learn more about UPC/EAN verifiers.
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| Type | Linear (1D) |
| Character Set | 12 numerical digits per code |
| Example of Application Standards | Scanning trade items at the point of sale |
| Non-standardized applications | None |
| Key features | The size of the quiet zone depends on the type of UPC code. UPC-A requires a width of at least 9 times the X-dimension and UPC-E requires 9 X-dimension units on the left and 7 X-dimension units on the right. Prefixes depend on the use of the UPC Code. |
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Any of Webscan’s linear verifiers can verify UPC/EAN barcodes. Learn more about UPC/EAN verifiers.
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