Generate EAN,UPC,ISBN barcodes in Ubuntu / Debian Linux

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

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