Staging preview — not published. This page describes a format TRAKWIND Scan reads, so it stays unindexed until the release is confirmed.

New with TRAKWIND Scan

DataBar Expanded

The DataBar that carries more than a product code — weight, batch, dates, coupon data.

Type: Linear (1D), also available stacked
Encodes: A GTIN plus GS1 Application Identifiers
Typical data: Net weight, batch or lot, best-before and expiry dates, price
Standard: GS1 General Specifications

DataBar Expanded is the variant that stops being just an identifier. Alongside the product code it carries GS1 Application Identifiers — structured fields with defined meanings — so a single scan can tell you the item, what it weighs, which batch it came from and when it expires.

That is why it turns up on variable-weight goods. A tray of meat or fish has no fixed price or weight until it is packed, so the label is printed in store and the code carries the specifics. Coupons use the same mechanism to encode offer terms that a plain product number could not express.

For anyone doing goods-in, stock rotation or date checks, this is the difference between scanning a number and scanning the actual facts about what is in your hand.

Where you meet it

Coupons, and variable-weight meat and fish, with the extra GS1 fields printed into the code itself.

Can a phone read the weight and expiry from a DataBar Expanded?

With TRAKWIND Scan selected, yes. The engine decodes the symbol and the app’s GS1 parser separates the Application Identifiers, so the weight, batch and expiry appear as named fields rather than one run-together string.

How to scan it with your phone

1
Install Barcode & QR Scanner Keyboard from Google Play and enable it as a keyboard.
2
Open Settings → Scanning engine and choose TRAKWIND Scan.
3
Tap the barcode key on the keyboard and point the camera at the code.

The value is typed into whatever field you were already in — a spreadsheet, an ERP screen, a web form. There is nothing to integrate.