GSO ISO/IEC 15420:2013

ISO/IEC 15420:2009
Gulf Standard   Current Edition · Approved on 31 December 2013

Information technology -- Automatic identification and data capture techniques -- EAN/UPC bar code symbology specification

GSO ISO/IEC 15420:2013 Files

GSO ISO/IEC 15420:2013 Scope

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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