---
name: "pbmupc"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "netpbm"
version: "10.86.51-2"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/pbmupc"
---

# pbmupc(1)

create a Universal Product Code PBM image

## NAME

pbmupc - create a Universal Product Code PBM image

## SYNOPSIS

**pbmupc**

\[**-s1** \| **-s2**\] *type* *manufacturer* *product*

## DESCRIPTION

This program is part of **Netpbm**(1) .

**pbmupc** generates an image of a Universal Product Code symbol. The three arguments are: a one digit product type, a five digit manufacturer code, and a five digit product code. For example, "0 72890 00011" is the code for Heineken.

**pbmupc** produces an image 230 bits wide and 175 bits high.  If you want a different size run the output through **pamscale**.

## OPTIONS

In addition to the options common to all programs based on libnetpbm (most notably **-quiet**, see \
  Common Options ⟨index.html#commonoptions⟩ ), **pbmupc** recognizes the following command line options:

The **-s1** and **-s2** options select the style of UPC to generate.  The default, **-s1**, looks more or less like this:

```
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0||12345||67890||5
```

The other style, **-s2**, puts the product type digit higher up, and doesn't display the checksum digit:

```
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0||||||||||||||||
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 ||12345||67890||
```

## SEE ALSO

[**pamscale**(1)](/pamscale/1.md) **pbm**(1)

## AUTHOR

Copyright (C) 1989 by Jef Poskanzer.

## DOCUMENT SOURCE

This manual page was generated by the Netpbm tool 'makeman' from HTML source.  The master documentation is at

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  **http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/pbmupc.html**