Would you like to automate your production process? Do you need to extract information from your image acquisition for reliable decision-making?

Explore the versatile capabilities of image processing with Basler's pylon vTools, offering practical tools for integrating and optimizing image processing workflows. pylon vTools can be flexibly combined to solve any machine vision challenge. From code reading to sorting, from measurement to error detection.

vTools Offering

Barcode Reader: This vTool enables the recognition and decoding of barcodes from up to 28 different bar code types. Easy to implement, it provides the fastest path to powerful barcode recognition with best-in-class recognition rates.
Data Matrix Code Reader: This vTool enables the recognition and decoding of Data Matrix codes. Built using drag-and-drop, it offers reliable Data Matrix code recognition for all use cases.
QR Code Reader: This vTool enables the recognition and decoding of QR codes. It is easy to implement and offers excellent and powerful QR code recognition on any background.
OCR: This vTool enables easy Optical Character Recognition by defining a region of interest, selecting a standard font, and adjusting segmentation for fast and reliable character detection.
Blob Analysis: This vTool offers operators for threshold-based blob analysis, such as identifying regions by gray value. It includes absolute, auto (binary), and relative thresholding. With morphology and filtering tools, it enables robust, accurate analysis of regions and objects.
Color Blob Analysis: This vTool offers algorithms for blob analysis tasks beyond grayscale thresholding, such as identifying objects by color. It includes a machine-learning-based pixel classifier using a Gaussian Mixture Model for training and classification.
Measurement: This vTool measures distances between edges, along lines, and along geometric shapes such as rectangles and circles. Measurement rectangles can be drawn on live or file images. Combined with the Calibration vTool, measurements are automatically returned in real-world units.
Geometric Pattern Matching: This vTool allows fast and robust recognition of shapes, logos, and objects using edge-based algorithms. Shape models are created by marking areas on images, with automatic contour detection enabling easy training and accurate matching for image alignment and further processing.
Template Matching: This vTool allows quick model training and robust detection of intensity patterns in live images. It uses normalized cross correlation for accuracy despite deformation, rotation, or blur. Results can align images for further processing.
Calibration & Rectification: This vTool enables fast camera calibration to correct distortion and convert pixel coordinates into real-world positions, angles, and dimensions using a precise transformation model.
Preprocessing: This vTool for arithmetic operations, as well as smoothing and morphology operations on images, provides high-performance algorithms to enhance, mask, or weaken image features in order to improve and optimize them for further image processing steps.

Entitlement

Buy the vTool licenses you need to solve your machine vision tasks. Each license is valid for one year and can be used on a single IED with any number of cameras. You can try out pylon vTools for free (requestable on baslerweb.com) and create your image processing design in the pylon Viewer app. The recipe can be changed and adapted as often as needed. Combine pylon vTools flexible to create your desired application. You need the Basler Vision Connector in the Industrial Edge to connect your cameras and acquire images.