Just tried for myself by aiming my phone at the screen...
The first one is unreadable, probably because the right frame bars are too blurry.
The second one is Ralston Purina Cat Chow.
The third one is "P/Boot Fisherman". Whatever that means.
The fourth one is unreadable.
Bet the first one could be made readable with some careful shooping. Somebody else can take care of that.
are you ready?
@dirt Hah. Did you use upcmachine.com? Try entering the first code, 2000010247, with and without trailing zeroes.
Interesting that optical bar codes searches on the center two at bottom work, but manual searches of their numbers don't.
Ten digit sequences aren't UPC standard anyway. So I half wonder if the matches are coincidentally of 12-digit codes with two leading zeroes.
Interesting that optical bar codes searches on the center two at bottom work, but manual searches of their numbers don't.
Ten digit sequences aren't UPC standard anyway. So I half wonder if the matches are coincidentally of 12-digit codes with two leading zeroes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
OIC, the 12-digit code leads with a system ID and ends with a checksum. It's the 10 digits in the middle that contain the identification.
So the pasteboard artist stripped the outer two digits of each 12 digit sequence to mash the barcodes together. By happenstance a couple of the UPC lookups can make best-guesses based on the lack of ID and checksum, and the rest give up on the lack of proper sequence length.
OIC, the 12-digit code leads with a system ID and ends with a checksum. It's the 10 digits in the middle that contain the identification.
So the pasteboard artist stripped the outer two digits of each 12 digit sequence to mash the barcodes together. By happenstance a couple of the UPC lookups can make best-guesses based on the lack of ID and checksum, and the rest give up on the lack of proper sequence length.
I ran these thorough my barcode software, assuming the leading digit of 0 since that's pretty common, and allowed it to calculate the checksum and therefore full barcode. First one (0 20000 10247 4) is Lindy Early June Peas. Fourth (0 51000 01261 6) is Cambells Cream of Mushroom.
P/Boot Fisherman is a product of the Quaker Oats. Think it might be Pounce Cat Treats, looks like they used to be branded as Puss n' Boots.
The ones up top are all Campbell's products, typically the second group of five digits all indicate the manufacturer.
So somebody just went through their pantry.
P/Boot Fisherman is a product of the Quaker Oats. Think it might be Pounce Cat Treats, looks like they used to be branded as Puss n' Boots.
The ones up top are all Campbell's products, typically the second group of five digits all indicate the manufacturer.
So somebody just went through their pantry.
Companies can re-register their five-digit product numbers, so they might've been totally different items in 1980. Although The Lindy Early June Peas entry was last updated in 2000 or so, for example.
@cwhartman Hah, I was hacking away on something similar this morning to test iterations based on what the missing leading digit might be. Thanks for saving me time.
@cwhartman Hah, I was hacking away on something similar this morning to test iterations based on what the missing leading digit might be. Thanks for saving me time.
Shouldn't be hard to find out -- try scanning one of the first three and if they work at all the checksums should validate. The rightmost one looks like it was partially covered over by a fragment of a fifth bar code, so it probably isn't readable. You might not be able to find out what products they came from.