Tools
Read a device label
Paste the string from a label or a scanner and see what it says: device identifier, lot, expiry, serial. It runs in your browser and sends nothing anywhere.
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Decode
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What a label carries
A UDI has two halves. The device identifier names the product and its labeller — on GS1 labels a 14-digit GTIN with a check digit. The production identifiers name the unit in front of you: the lot or batch, the expiry, a serial where one exists, sometimes the production date.
On the label, each part sits behind an application identifier — (01) for the device identifier, (17) for expiry, (10) for lot, (21) for serial. A scanner emits the same data without the brackets and with a separator character between the variable-length parts; the decoder reads both.
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What the full system adds
Reading the label is the first step of a goods receipt, not the last. In the systems Armage builds for distributors and importers, the same scan continues:
- Registration lookup. The device identifier is checked against the registers that matter for the market — GUDID, EUDAMED, the national importer registers — and the result is recorded with the receipt.
- Expiry and recall watch. Every unit's expiry and lot are held, so a recall notice or an approaching date becomes a list of where the affected units are, not a search.
- Custody per unit. Who received it, where it sits, where it went — from the importer's dock to the theatre — with an audit trail that can be checked.
- Register exports. The distribution records a regulator asks for, produced from the data rather than reconstructed from it.
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Questions
- Does the decoder send my label anywhere?
- No. The decoding runs inside your browser and nothing is stored or transmitted. Reload the page and it is gone.
- What does it read?
- GS1 element strings as printed on device labels or as a scanner emits them — device identifier (GTIN), lot, expiry, serial, production date and the other application identifiers used in healthcare — and the primary structure of HIBCC labels.
- Can it tell me whether the device is registered or recalled?
- Not here. Registration lookups (GUDID, EUDAMED, national registers), recall matching and custody per unit are what Armage builds for distributors and importers; the decoder shows the layer those systems start from.
Bring the receipt process, not just the label
If your stock arrives with labels like these and leaves with paperwork built by hand, write to hello@arm-age.com.