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5.12.5 Interleaved 2 of 5 / ITF 14
Description
The interleaved 2 or 5 barcode (ITF) is used in industry with a range of
use similar to code 39.
However, compared to this latter, it can only encode numerical data.
The term interleaved stems from the fact that the characters in this
barcode are encoded both in the bars and spaces.
A particular case of the interleaved 2 of 5 version is ITF 14, which is
used as the European standard for encoding multiple packages of
products encoded individually.
In practice, this is an interleaved 2 or 5 fourteen digits long, in which the
most significant digit is always a 0 and where the remaining thirteen
correspond to the numbers in the EAN 13 of the individual products.
It is always advisable to use a final check digit with this barcode.
Format
Table 5.15 - Interleaved 2 of 5
Table 5.16 - ITF 14
N
2
. . . N
32
N
1
. . . N
13
CD