Barcodes

[rowan1990]

Is there a website that you can enter the barcode in and i could see information on the product?
thanks

[tomd]

This sounded fun, so I had a look on the web and I found two that worked;

This site

http://www.ean.ch/gepir/client_e.asp

provides the infomation about the company that provides the product, according to the barcode, but no infomation about the product itself. This one uses many differnet types of barcodes, but most of the ones you will be looking up will be the 13 digit barcode.

This site

http://www.upcdatabase.com/itemform.asp

gives more infomation about each product, as opposed to the company that produced it. I just tested it with a can of WD-40 and a jar of Tesco Jalapeno peppers, and it didn't recognise the peppers, (only that Tesco made them), but it knew the size & weight of the WD-40 exactly.

[WoWo]

There are various standards of bar-codes, the most common in this country is the EAN (European Article Number).

It is a 13 digit number which is broken up into 4 parts, the first part is the country of origin code (5 for the UK), a manufacturer code, a product code and then finally a check digit used to make sure the code has been read correct.

However if you are not selling on the open market (such as the Tescos product mentioned) then you can use any system you like.

[rowan1990]

Thanks very much TOMD very useful and thanks WOWO