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  2. Universal Product Code - Wikipedia

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    A UPC barcode. The Universal Product Code (UPC or UPC code) is a barcode symbology that is used worldwide for tracking trade items in stores.. The chosen symbology has bars (or spaces) of exactly 1, 2, 3, or 4 units wide each; each decimal digit to be encoded consists of two bars and two spaces chosen to have a total width of 7 units, in both an "even" and an "odd" parity form, which enables ...

  3. Product naming convention - Wikipedia

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    The use of UPC codes may come to replace the need for such naming conventions as bar code readers become common. Speakable product name codes or strict names are still needed for marketing and customer service aspects. A properly identified product can lead to sales and properly targeted support. [3] Naming can be separated by a shift of ...

  4. How to Decode the Tiny Stickers on Grocery Store Fruits and ...

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    First, those stickers that come with a few numbers printed on them have a name: Price Look-Up (PLU) codes, a globally recognized system for quickly identifying fresh produce at the checkout counter.

  5. Product code - Wikipedia

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    Universal Product Code, common barcode used to identify packaged products; Electronic Product Code, an RFID code mainly applied as a packaging code for packaged products; Motion Picture Production Code (production code for short) Product key, a number used to verify the authenticity of a software as a license code

  6. International Article Number - Wikipedia

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    The most commonly used EAN standard is the thirteen-digit EAN-13, a superset of the original 12-digit Universal Product Code (UPC-A) standard developed in 1970 by George J. Laurer. [1] An EAN-13 number includes a 3-digit GS1 prefix (indicating country of registration or special type of product). A prefix with a first digit of "0" indicates a 12 ...

  7. Global Trade Item Number - Wikipedia

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    The Global Trade Item Number (GTIN) is an identifier for trade items, developed by the international organization GS1. [1] Such identifiers are used to look up product information in a database (often by entering the number through a barcode scanner pointed at an actual product) which may belong to a retailer, manufacturer, collector, researcher, or other entity.

  8. GS1 - Wikipedia

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    GS1 is a not-for-profit, international organization developing and maintaining its own standards for barcodes and the corresponding issue company prefixes.The best known of these standards is the barcode, a symbol printed on products that can be scanned electronically.

  9. Electronic Product Code - Wikipedia

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    Both the Universal Product Code and EAN-13 identifiers that are still found on many trade items can be mapped into a 14-digit GTIN identifier, by padding to the left with zero digits to reach a total of 14 digits. An SGTIN EPC identifier can therefore be constructed by combining the resulting GTIN with a unique serial number and following the ...