EAN-13 Barcode Specifications

The EAN13 barcode option is specified in IDAutomation Barcode Fonts, Components and Applications to create an EAN-13 barcode, a symbology that is most commonly used to encode 13 digits of the GTIN barcode symbology, and to identify books with Bookland or ISBN barcode symbols.

The 13th digit of the EAN-13 barcode is a MOD10 check digit that is re-calculated in all IDAutomation barcode products to reduce scanning errors, and may be omitted when encoding data. A 2 or 5 digit add-on may be created by appending the numbers to the end of the 12 or 13 digits that make up the primary symbol. Therefore, a number string of 12, 13, 14, 15, 17 or 18 digits (with or without a check digit) must make up the DataToEncode.

  • Using the EAN13 barcode option with a font encoder returns text formatted to the EAN-13 Barcode Fonts.
  • The EAN13 barcode option in all components and applications will produce a barcode image.
  • Entering incorrect data may create a barcode containing all zeros in some products.

Fig. 1. EAN-13 barcode encoding "1134567890121" with an add-on of "52088".
EAN-13 bar-code example.
The above EAN-13 barcode symbol was generated with the Barcode Image Generator. A free online barcode generator is also available.

The EAN-13 barcode type is easily read and verified with the IDAutomation USB Barcode Scanner.

 

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