# Check an exact code and share a reviewed report

Keep leading zeroes, compare redacted and full reports, and save a local backup.

Source: https://help.smartfact.ai/barcodebench/guides/plain-code-and-reports

Audience: Operator

This lesson uses made-up values. BarcodeBench checks the text received, not the physical print quality, ownership or correctness of a shipment.

## Check an exact code and share a reviewed report

1. **Start a barcode check**

   Start a barcode check.

   Start a temporary session. Values stay on this device and are not sent for a remote lookup.

2. **Scan the complete supplier code**

   Scan the complete supplier code.

   Scan every character, including leading zeroes. A match to a number format does not prove that a code uses GS1.

3. **Choose how to read the value**

   Choose how to read the value.

   Move to the format choice before asking BarcodeBench to explain the value.

4. **Keep a supplier code as plain text**

   Keep a supplier code as plain text.

   Choose the format that matches the data you are checking. BarcodeBench keeps the original value.

5. **Check the supplier code**

   Check the supplier code.

   Read the original code exactly. Plain text does not undergo GS1 checks.

6. **Preview a report without the values**

   Preview a report without the values.

   Preview the report. The default leaves out your barcode values and the details of where they came from.

7. **Download the redacted JSON report**

   Download the redacted JSON report.

   Download the checked report without the exact values. Preview it before sharing.

8. **Download the PDF report**

   Download the PDF report.

   Download a PDF of the report you previewed. This does not print a physical label.

9. **Choose to include the exact values**

   Choose to include the exact values.

   Only include the exact values when the recipient should be allowed to see them. This is a separate choice.

10. **Review the full report**

   Review the full report.

   The full report contains the exact values. Check this warning and the preview before sharing it.

11. **Download the full JSON report**

   Download the full JSON report.

   Download the report with exact values only for a trusted recipient.

12. **Save the session on this device**

   Save the session on this device.

   Save only on a device you control. A local session is not a shared production record.

13. **Download a session backup**

   Download a session backup.

   Keep a backup to reopen your values later. When reopened, the values are checked again with the installed barcode rules.

[Watch or practise this chapter](https://help.smartfact.ai/barcodebench/demo?guide=plain-code-and-reports&chapter=plain-code-and-reports)