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Code 32 (Italian Pharmacode)

Code 32, also known as Italian Pharmacode, is used to encode pharmaceutical products in Italy. It is based on Code 39 - Regular, using 5 bars and 4 spaces to encode each character. Three of the elements are wide, while the other 6 are narrow.

ClosedThe Character Set

This symbology supports the numeric characters 0 through 9.

ClosedThe Symbology Structure

A Code 32 symbol must include eight numeric digits, plus one modulo 10 check digit automatically calculated by the application. If less than 8 characters are specified, padding characters will be added.

Each symbol begins with the ASCII character "A", which is not encoded into the barcode.