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Useful project.

How are you getting the product information ? Is there a public barcode database ?

Looks like it uses https://www.outpan.com

Like already written, the information comes from Outpan... If the product isn't already on outpan you're asked to enter the name of the product and a new entry is created.

It is a crowdsourced model.

I did check online for other API services [0..2] and GT1 [3] information.

[0] http://www.ean-search.org/

[1] https://www.barcodelookup.com/api

[2] http://eandata.com/

[3] http://www.gs1.org/barcodes/ean-upc

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