### EAN-8

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.