Back الرقم العالمي للسلع والمنتجات Arabic European Article Number Bashkir EAN Bulgarian Codi de barres EAN Catalan European Article Number Czech International Article Number (EAN) Danish European Article Number German EAN Greek International Article Number English Internacia Varnumero Esperanto
The European Article Number (often shortened to EAN) is a standard to encode product numbers. The EAN is a special case of a Global Trade Item Number. The EAN is made of either 8 or 13 digits (EAN-8, and EAN-13). In many cases, the EAN allows to uniquely identify the item. Most of the time, the EAN is printed on the packaging of a product. Special scanners are able to decode these numbers. They then look up the product-specific data (such as the price) and print it on the bill, for exampe.
Note that the EAN is often encoded using a barcode (such as the ones in the example), but this does not have to be thecase. There are other machine-readable codes which can also be used.