The International Article Number (also known as European Article Number or EAN) is a barcode symbology used in retail business to specify the manufacturer and model of a product. EAN-13 and its variation EAN-8, is the most widely used EAN today.

A 2-digit country code plus a 5-digit manufacturer code, plus a 5-digit product code, plus a check digit, make up an EAN13 barcode.

When the leading 2-digit country code is 45 or 49, this barcode is a Japanese Article Number (JAN).
Smaller product packages use the 8-digit EAN8 barcode.

To show manufacturer’s suggested retail price, people put A 2-digit or 5-digit supplemental barcode to the right of an EAN13 barcode.

Here is the mapping table of EAN13 barcode font

Character	Mapping	Character	Mapping
Start	[	Stop	]
Supplement Start	{	Supplement Stop	}
Central Guard	\|	Supplement Separator	\
Text Only	0xE0 - 0xE9	UPCE Stop Character	'
Lefthand B with HR	PQWERTYUIO	Lefthand B without HR	pqwertyuio
Righthand with HR	:ASDFGHJKL	Righthand without HR	;asdfghjkl
Lefthand A with HR above	/zxcvbnm,.	Lefthand B with HR above	?ZXCVBNM<>
Lefthand A with HR below	0123456789	Lefthand A without HR below	~!#&40;#$%^&*(<>

EAN13 needs to append a checksum digit at the rear of data.

If you use Barcodesoft EAN13 fonts to print bar code, please use our Encoder to calculate checksum for you. You can also find source code in VBA and C language of EAN13 checksum calculation in the package.

There are 6 fonts contained in the package as listed below, marked by different trailing aspect ratio indicators. Barcodesoft EAN13 barcode fonts vary in aspect ratios.

Barcodesoft EAN13 Demo is fully functional even with the "Demo" watermark.

Barcodesoft EAN13 barcode fonts are available in true type, PostScript and PCL formats and can be embedded into Adobe PDF files.

Here is the list of Barcodesoft EAN13 Barcode Fonts

Aspect Ratio	Font Typeface
XS	UPCEANXS
S	UPCEANS
M	UPCEANM
L	UPCEANL
XL	UPCEANXL
XXL	UPCEANXXL

This is the pricing list of Barcodesoft EAN13 barcode package

License	Single User	10-User	Site	Corporate	Developer	Unlimited Developer
Price	USD129	USD199	USD499	USD599	USD699	USD1799

Integrate EAN13 barcode with Crystal Reports

1. Open your crystal report. Right click Formula Fields, choose "New..." from the context menu.

Type in "EAN13" in the Name textbox, then click "Use Editor".

EAN13 barcode crystal reports create formula

2. From Functions List ==> Additional Functions ==> COM and .NET UFLs (u212com.dll) ==> Visual Basic UFLs, double click to choose "BCSLinearEAN13" function as shown below.

3. Please type in the database field as parameter for EAN13 formula. And click "Save" button to save EAN13 formula field.

4. Drag and drop the EAN13 formula field to your crystal report design view. You may see some strange characters. Don't worry! You haven't applied EAN13 barcode font yet.

EAN13 barcode crystal reports formula field

5. Please right click EAN13 formula field in your report and choose "Format Field" from context menu. Then choose "UpcEanM" as font typeface.

EAN13 barcode font crystal reports

Click OK button. You will see EAN13 barcode in your report.

EAN13 barcode crystal reports

Integrate EAN13 Barcode with MS Excel

1. Start Microsoft® Excel® first.

If you are using Excel 2000 or 2003, click menu ===> Tools ==> Macro ===> Security. Choose Low security level.

EAN13 Macro Security

If you are using Excel 2007 / 2010 / 2013 / 2016 / 2019, click the Microsoft Office Button.
Office 2010 button Office 2016 button Office 2019 button
Then click Excel Options, choose Trust Center. In the Macro Settings category, under Macro Settings, choose "Enable all macros" as shown below.

EAN13 Macro Setting

2. Press ALT + F11 to open Microsoft® Visual Basic editor.
EAN13 VBA

3. From Visual Basic editor, choose menu Tools ===> References. It will popup a dialog. Click Browse button and choose cruflbcs.dll from your working folder.
Usually it's under C:\Program File (x86)\CommonFiles\Barcodesoft\Fontutil folder.
Click the checkbox beside crUFLBcs 1.0 Type Library as shown below. Then click OK button.

EAN13 add reference

4. Press Ctrl+M, it will popup a dialog, choose barcodesoft.bas under C:\Program File (x86)\CommonFiles\Barcodesoft\Fontutil folder. Then click "Open".

If you don't find barcodesoft.bas, please download it from EAN13.
EAN13 import vba

5. Close Visual Basic editor and go back to your spreadsheet. Now, you can use the following macros to encode data: EAN13 . When you have lots of data to process, you can just copy and paste the macro to the whole column and all data will be encoded immediately.
=ean13(xxx)
=ean8(xxx)

Tip: If your UPC code begins with zero, please type an apostrophe(') prior to the leading zero of UPC code in your Excel cell. Otherwise, the leading zero of UPC code will be omitted by Excel. Please use cell reference to replace xxx in the formulas as shown below.

EAN13 barcod excel macro

6. Right click Cell B1, choose Format Cell from context menu. Then click Font to apply one of the appropriate font typefaces to the cell, such as UpcEanM.

EAN13 import vba

Integrate EAN13 Barcode With MS Access

1. Start Microsoft® Access® first.

If you are using Access 2000 or 2003, click menu ===> Tools ==> Macro ===> Security. Choose Low security level.
EAN13 Access Macro Security

If you are using Access 2007 / 2010 / 2013 / 2016 / 2019, click the Microsoft Office Button.
Office 2010 button Office 2016 button Office 2019 button
Then click Access Options, choose Trust Center. In the Macro Settings category, under Macro Settings, choose "Enable all macros" as shown below.

EAN13 Access Macro Setting

2. Press ALT + F11 to open Microsoft® Visual Basic editor.
EAN13 Access VBA

3. From Visual Basic editor, choose menu Tools ===> References. It will popup a dialog. Click Browse button and choose cruflbcs.dll from your working folder.
Usually it's under C:\Program File (x86)\CommonFiles\Barcodesoft\Fontutil folder.
Click the checkbox beside crUFLBcs 4.0 Type Library as shown below. Then click OK button.

EAN13 add reference

4. Press Ctrl+M, it will popup a dialog, choose barcodesoft.bas under C:\Program File (x86)\CommonFiles\Barcodesoft\Fontutil folder. Then click "Open".

If you don't find barcodesoft.bas, please download it from EAN13.
EAN13 import vba

5. Close Visual Basic and go back to your Access database. Now, create a report in Design view and type in one of the following macros in the field where you want to show EAN13 barcode before apply font typeface, such as UpcEanM:
=ean13([data.code])
=ean8([data.code])

Please notice that 'data' is the Table name, 'code' is the Field name.

EAN13 barcode excel macro

6. Right click the field you want to display EAN13 barcode. Choose Properties from context menu. Apply one of the appropriate font typefaces to the field, such as UpcEanM.

EAN13 import vba