MVTec improves ActivVisionTools software
During May 2008, Germany's MVTec Software GmbH is planning to launch Version 3.2 of ActivVisionTools which, it says, is faster than previous versions and includes robust, bar-code reader technology.
The speed of this easy-to-use software for machine vision applications has been increased significantly by taking advantage of SSE2 acceleration, using the underlying Halcon 8.0 library - providing real, added value for customers, says the firm.
ActivVisionTools 3.2 also uses the library's highly robust bar-code reader technology. In addition to the bar-codes that are already supported, such as EAN-13, UPC, Pharma Code, and data-codes, for instance, ECC 200, QR code and PDF417, the latest version also reads RSS-14 (GS1 DataBar), including all of its stacked and composite variations.
MVTec says that the image-acquisition software has also been improved. The graphical user interface has been redesigned to improve its usability, and Version 3.2 provides the application ActivViewer free of charge. This is able to acquire images from more than 50 frame grabbers and hundreds of industrial cameras.
ActivVisionTools 3.2 works with GigE Vision, IIDC1394 (Industrial Instrumentation Digital Camera FireWire) data format and DirectShow. Besides ActivBarcode and ActivDatacode, further tools such as ActivAlignment, ActivBlobFinder, ActivMeasure and ActivOCR are based on the Halcon library.
Contact:
MVTec Software GmbH
Neherstrasse 1
Munich, D-81675
Germany
Phone: +49-89-457-6950
Fax: +49-89-457-695-55
Email: info@mvtec.com
Web: http://www.mvtec.com
