Barcode scaner - functional gadget for Windows 7. Using this gadget, you can easy find out the country of origin of any product by a barcode consisting of 13 digits. In order to find out the country of the manufacturer by the barcode, you must enter all 13 digits that are under the hatching in the gadget window. In the case of a correctly entered 13-digit barcode value, the gadget will automatically calculate the country and display it to you. The barcode is calculated according to the EAN-13 standard.

What is EAN-13?

The EAN-13 barcode is applied to most of the goods that we see every day in stores. The barcode consists of 13 digits, for which it received the corresponding name. EAN-13 codes contain only numbers, for example: 7290012474668. The EAN-13 barcode is used to label products worldwide that are sold at retail outlets. The numbers encoded in the EAN-13 barcode are the product identification number.

Structure number EAN-13

The EAN-13 barcode consists of four parts:
the first 2-3 digits are the country prefix;
the following digits are the code of the manufacturer within the country;
the next group of numbers is the product code;
the last 13th digit is a check digit calculated from the previous twelve.