| EAN-8 Structure (From left to right) |
|---|
| Start guard bars, always with a pattern bar+space+bar |
| Two number system characters, encoded with character set A |
| The following two characters, encoded with character set A |
| Center guard bars, with a pattern space+bar+space+bar+space |
| Last three characters, encoded in character set C |
| Stop guard bars, always with a pattern bar+space+bar |
The EAN-8 is fixed length and is similar to the UPC-E code, but includes two more digits for the country code. The nominal height for the EAN-8 bar code is one inch. The reduced size is 80% of the nominal size.