{"id":598,"date":"2012-11-26T14:45:53","date_gmt":"2012-11-26T14:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bardecode.com\/en1\/?p=598"},"modified":"2013-03-05T11:25:17","modified_gmt":"2013-03-05T11:25:17","slug":"upc-e-barcodes-and-zero-suppression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bardecode.com\/en1\/upc-e-barcodes-and-zero-suppression\/","title":{"rendered":"upc-e barcodes and zero suppression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0UPC-E barcode is actually an EAN-13\/UPC-A barcode that has had certain digits removed to create an 8 digit number. Only certain EAN-13\/UPC-A barcodes can go through this process.<\/p>\n<p>For example, the UPC-A barcode &#8220;023456000073 &#8221; can be suppressed to the UPC-E value &#8220;02345673&#8221; and restored to it&#8217;s original value by the barcode reader. The Softek barcode Reader SDK can interpret a UPC-E barcode in either format via the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bardecode.com\/en\/manual-pages-for-windows-sdk\/109-convertupcetoean13-convert-upc-e-barcodes-to-ean-13-format.html\">ConvertUPCEToEAN13<\/a>\u00a0property.<\/p>\n<p>A useful description of the suppression process can be found on the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.idautomation.com\/barcode\/UPC-E.html\">IDAutomation web site<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0UPC-E barcode is actually an EAN-13\/UPC-A barcode that has had certain digits removed to create an 8 digit number. Only certain EAN-13\/UPC-A barcodes can go through this process. For example, the UPC-A barcode &#8220;023456000073 &#8221; can be suppressed to the UPC-E value &#8220;02345673&#8221; and restored to it&#8217;s original value by the barcode reader. The Softek<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bardecode.com\/en1\/upc-e-barcodes-and-zero-suppression\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":332,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[19,56,91,129,128,130],"class_list":["post-598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software-development-kits","tag-barcode","tag-barcode-reader","tag-encoding","tag-suppression","tag-upc-e","tag-zero-suppression"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bardecode.com\/en1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bardecode.com\/en1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bardecode.com\/en1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bardecode.com\/en1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bardecode.com\/en1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bardecode.com\/en1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1668,"href":"https:\/\/www.bardecode.com\/en1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions\/1668"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bardecode.com\/en1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bardecode.com\/en1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bardecode.com\/en1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bardecode.com\/en1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}