Requirements

• Setuptools/distribute for installation.

• Python 3.5 or above

• Program to open SVG objects (your browser should do it)

• Optional: PIL to render barcodes as images (PNG, JPG, …)

Installation

The best way is to use pip: pip install python-barcode.

You can also install manually by downloading the tarball, extracting it, and running python setup.py install.

Provided Barcodes

• EAN-8

• EAN-13

• EAN-14

• UPC-A

• JAN

• ISBN-10

• ISBN-13

• ISSN

• Code 39

• Code 128

• PZN

Todo

• Add documentation

• Add more codes

Usage

Interactive:

>>> import barcode
>>> barcode.PROVIDED_BARCODES
[u'code39', u'code128', u'ean', u'ean13', u'ean8', u'gs1', u'gtin',
 u'isbn', u'isbn10', u'isbn13', u'issn', u'jan', u'pzn', u'upc', u'upca']
>>> EAN = barcode.get_barcode_class('ean13')
>>> EAN
<class 'barcode.ean.EuropeanArticleNumber13'>
>>> ean = EAN(u'5901234123457')
>>> ean
<barcode.ean.EuropeanArticleNumber13 object at 0x00BE98F0>
>>> fullname = ean.save('ean13_barcode')
>>> fullname
u'ean13_barcode.svg'
# Example with PNG
>>> from barcode.writer import ImageWriter
>>> ean = EAN(u'5901234123457', writer=ImageWriter())
>>> fullname = ean.save('ean13_barcode')
u'ean13_barcode.png'
# New in v0.4.2
>>> from StringIO import StringIO
>>> fp = StringIO()
>>> ean.write(fp)
# or
>>> f = open('/my/new/file', 'wb')
>>> ean.write(f) # PIL (ImageWriter) produces RAW format here
# New in v0.5.0
>>> from barcode import generate
>>> name = generate('EAN13', u'5901234123457', output='barcode_svg')
>>> name
u'barcode_svg.svg'
# with file like object
>>> fp = StringIO()
>>> generate('EAN13', u'5901234123457', writer=ImageWriter(), output=fp)
>>>

Now open ean13_barcode.[svg|png] in a graphic app or simply in your browser and see the created barcode. That’s it.

Commandline:

$ pybarcode create "My Text" outfile
New barcode saved as outfile.svg.
$ pybarcode create -t png "My Text" outfile
New barcode saved as outfile.png.

Try `pybarcode -h` for help.

Changelog

Previous Changelog

This project is a fork of pyBarcode, which, apparently, is no longer maintained. v0.8.0 is our first release, and is the latest master from that parent project.