1. An apparatus for identifying an object with an article dependently upon a piece of barcode information detected from a barcode with which the object is identified, the apparatus comprising a memory in which a number of article numbers are stored which are assigned, on the one hand, to a number of articles and on the other hand to a number of different article number types, and a control which compares the piece of barcode information detected dependently upon a specified sequence of article number types with article numbers stored in the memory and, in the case the piece of barcode information detected corresponding with one of the stored article numbers, identifies the object with the article assigned to this article number.