Barcodes

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Barcode length

The majority of product codes are following EAN-13 standard, and, as such, are 13 chars length.

As of 2022-04-06, Open Food Facts contains more than 12,000 products (~0.5%) with a barcode longer than 13 chars.

Open Food Facts website can't display a product with a barcode longer than 24 chars.

All things barcode

• Non Standard Barcodes
• Brands to add based on barcode
• Global brands and companies taxonomy: Barcode prefixes for brands are already included
• Global countries taxonomy : Barcode prefixes for countries will be included
• Barcodes/Countries: Map from barcode initials to country or purpose
• Verification/Noteworthy Products#Products with same bar code: List of instances where two or more products have been identified as having the same barcode.

Barcode related pages on Open Food Facts

• http://world.openfoodfacts.org/code/invalid-ean
• http://world.openfoodfacts.org/codes
• http://world.openfoodfacts.org/code/9300462xxxxxx

News

• Wikidata is adding support for GS1 country prefixes

Roadmap

• Features and bugs to work on
• Adding APIs for mobile scanning apps
  • Get country suggestions
  • Get Manufacturer Code suggestions
  • Get Product Code suggestions
  • Get barcode API
  • Generate barcode SVG

See also

• Barcode Wikipedia page.