EAN-13 (and ISBN) Barcode Generation in C#

B# .NET Blog - EAN-13 barcodes in C#

"A couple of days ago I posted about Code 39 barcode generation in C# (and here). Today another more famous barcode is the subject of my blogpost: EAN-13. EAN stands for European Article Number and is a way to number products. It's an extension of UPC (Universal Product Code). More information over here.

One particular interesting application of EAN-13 is the fact that ISBN (International Standard Book Number) codes are also represented as EAN-13 codes. I'll blog about this too.

Mission goal

As we did with Code 39, we want to be able to do something like this:

Ean13 barcode = new Ean13("9780201734843", null);
barcode.Paint().Save("c:\\temp\\test.png", ImageFormat.Png);

The second parameter to the Ean13 constructor is an optional title to display on top of the barcode (will be handy for ISBN numbers).

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Another cool barcode generation example from Bart De Smet.

The ISBN reference is this reference that caught my eye (related to my long standing, yet uber lower low priority/paused background thread "My Bookshelf" project...).

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Creating Code 39 Barcodes in C#