ISO/IEC 15420:2025
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Information technology — Automatic identification and data capture techniques — EAN/UPC bar code symbology specification
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19-11-2025
This document specifies the requirements for the bar code symbology known as EAN/UPC. This document 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 this document; they are defined in GS1 General Specifications.
| Committee |
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 31
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| DocumentType |
Standard
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| Pages |
37
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| PublisherName |
International Organization for Standardization
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| Status |
Current
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| Supersedes |
| Standards | Relationship |
| DS/ISO/IEC 15420:2025 | Identical |
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