Generate EAN,UPC,ISBN barcodes in Ubuntu / Debian Linux
Posted by Mohammad Hafiz mypapit Ismail on 18 Jun 2012 in Computers, GNU/Linux, Open Source, Server
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‘barcode‘ is a utility in Debian GNU/Linux distribution used for generating common 1-D barcode: EAN-13, EAN-8, UPC, ISBN, code93, code128 & codabar.
barcode outputs file in postscript format which can be converted to PDF with the ‘ps2pdf‘ utility
Usage:
1. Outputs isbn barcode and converts it to PDF file
$ barcode -o barcode.ps -e isbn $ ps2pdf barcode.ps
2. Outputs EAN-13 barcode
$ barcode -o barcode-ean.ps -e ean
If you are looking for a tool that could generate QR Code, then you can try ‘qrencode‘
Tags: barcode, debian, ean, isbn, linux, qr code, qrcode, ubuntu
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August 18th, 2012 at 6:24 am
Latex can do this too.. without the platform OS restriction