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ISO/IEC PRF 15420
Information technology — Automatic identification and data capture techniques — EAN/UPC bar code symbology specification
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ISO/IEC PRF 15420
Edition 3
© ISO 2025
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Under development
This draft is in the approval phase.
Will replace ISO/IEC 15420:2009

Abstract

Manufacturers of bar code equipment and users of bar code technology require publicly available standard symbology specifications to which they can refer when developing equipment and software.

ISO/IEC 15420:2009 specifies the requirements for the bar code symbology known as EAN/UPC. It specifies EAN/UPC symbology characteristics, data character encodation, dimensions, tolerances, decoding algorithms and parameters to be defined by applications. It specifies the Symbology Identifier prefix strings for EAN/UPC symbols.

Data content and the rules governing the use of this symbology are outside the scope of ISO/IEC 15420:2009; they are defined in the GS1 General Specifications.

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