J-3
ISBN 0-553-37062
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document ISO 2108:1992
The UPC/EAN checksum character
The last character in a UPC-A, UPC-E, UPC-E1, EAN-13 or EAN-8
bar code is the checksum. For reference, these are the methods of
calculation:
Checksum calculation for UPC-A, EAN-13 and EAN-8
Use Worth Data's phone number (it's not a real UPC-A code) as sample
data:
18314589938
Assign even and odd positions, starting at the right and moving left:
8 3 9 9 8 5 4 1 3 8 1
odd even odd even odd even odd even odd even odd
1. Starting with the leading digit, 8, take the sum of all the
characters in the odd positions.
8 + 9 +8 + 4 + 3 + 1 = 33
2. Multiply the result of step 1 by 3.
33 x 3 = 99
3. Now take the sum of all the even-position characters.
3 + 9 + 5 + 1 + 8 = 26
4. Add the result in Step 2 to the result in Step 3.
99 + 26 = 125
