CMP ISBN Amanuensis CMP ISBN Amanuensis
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This Applet will help you interconvert, tidy up, and validate ISBN-10 and ISBN-13s (International Standard Book Numbers). It tidies them into standard form with the dashes in the correct places (the rules where they go are quite complicated). It also validates the group number and the check digit. Just paste the raw ISBN-10 or ISBN-13 into the top raw box, click Tidy then copy the tidied ISBN-10 or ISBN-13 from the bottom boxes. A tidied ISBN looks like this: 0-9600688-8-0 or 0-13-625666-X or 978-0-00-000000-2.

The amanuensis is also available with Java source to download. When you run ISBN Amanuensis as an application, it is even more automatic. You don’t need to do manually paste and copying. Just click Paste to convert the current contents of the clipboard. The tidied ISBN-13 replaces the old the raw text clipboard contents. This automatic feature is not available in the Applet version because the Applet sandbox considers it a security risk. Sorry, you need Java to run the ISBN amanuensis.

If the above ISBN Validator Java Applet (that can also be run as an application) does not work…

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Here are some sample valid ISBN numbers you can use to test with:
0-00-000000-0 0-200-00000-4 0-7000-0000-3 0-85000-000-9 0-900000-00-7 0-9500000-0-0 0-9999999-9-0
1-00-000000-1 1-09-999999-5 1-100-00000-3 1-399-99999-0 1-4000-0000-9 1-4999-9999-2
1-5000-0000-0 1-5499-9999-0 1-55000-000-4 1-86979-999-2 1-869800-00-1 1-9990000-0-5
2-00000000-2 2-95000000-2 3-00000000-3 3-99999999-3 4-00000000-4 4-95000000-4
5-00000000-5 5-95000000-5 7-00000000-7 7-20000000-0 7-95000000-7 80-0000000-8 93-9999999-8 950-000000-8 950-999999-7
9949-99999-5 9950-00000-9 9959-99999-8 9960-00000-1 9989-99999-6 99901-9601-X
Examples of bad ISBNs you can use to test with:
6000000006 6950000006 6999999996 9400000006 9419000001 949999999X
992999999X 9930000003 9934000008 9939999992 9940000006 9999900003 9999999999

13-digit ISBN numbers

This program also handles the new Bookland EAN-13, 13-digit, bar-code ISBNs. It handles both 10-digit and 13-digit ISBNs. T All it does is prepend 978- to the old number and recompute the check digit. e.g.
0-915972-22-0 becomes 978-0-915972-22-7.
0-13-625666-X becomes 978-0-13-625666-3.

This program displays both the ISBN-10 and ISBN-13, with dashes in the right place, given either, The new Bookland EAN-13 check digit is computed in an unusual way with mod 10 and weight 3. This means the 13-digit ISBN numbers are always purely numeric. There is never an X check digit as there is sometimes with the mod-10, 10-digit ISBNs. 10-digit ISBNs and 12-digit UPCs are being unified as 13-digit EANs.

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ISBN Amanuensis		 2.2 2008-04-04 free Java
summary / PAD description / screenshot for the current version of ISBN Amanuensis. Applet to help you tidy, converw and verify ISBN-10 and ISBN-13 numbers, Inserts dashes in the correct places and validates the check digit. It works even more simply as a downloadable application. ISBN stands for International Standard Book Number.
download ISBN Amanuensis source and compiled class files to run on your own machine as an application or Applet. First install the most recent Java. To install, extract the zip download with Winzip, (or similar unzip utility) into any directory you please, often J:\ — ticking off the “user folder names” option. To run as an application,type:
java -jar J:\com\mindprod\isbn\isbn.jar
adjusting as necessary to account for where the jar file is.
download ASP PAD XML program description for the current version of ISBN Amanuensis.
ISBN Amanuensis is free. Full source included. You may even include the source code, modified or unmodified in commercial programs that you write and distribute. Non-military use only.
    
 
Alternate conversion program
Bookland EAN-13 13-digit ISBNs
EAN
hyphenation rules
ISBN
isbn ISBN home page
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