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elomatreb[m]: I thought so, but my German is very rusty. Thanks. :)

albertus1: I don’t know of any open data generic ones. For food and cosmetics and pet food you may try the Open{Thing}Facts databases. I think OpenFoodFacts at least has barcodes associated with their items.

that reclam booklet loads awfully slow

thanks Freso, didn't know about that project, which might be interesting in its own right an also serve with many of my daily EAN :)

what do you want to do with your EANs? :p

I'm not too determined yet, but I've been thinking about financial accounting techniques for my private consumption, and was thinking how to do it in a somewhat "complete" manner (tracking every single item), by possibly taking advantage of existing things such as product groups and the likes

there's http://product-open-data.com/

outdated, but provides downloadable dumps

i doubt there will ever be a freely usable database, since you can generate good money with EAN/UPC lists