NEW: Halcon Embedded now available for all ARM-based VC Z Smart Cameras

Optical character recognition (OCR) capabilities have been enhanced to ensure high recognition rates and reduce the need for parameter adjustments: the software is able to read characters of any size and distinguish text from the background even under challenging conditions, such as distorted characters. Message queues for inter-thread communication were added, as well as a whole range of new operators for bead inspection. Additional software interfaces facilitate further processing of data. HALCON tuples or iconic variables can now be verified directly in Visual Studio. In HDevelop, vector variables can be processed and tuples can be visualized as 1D or 2D plots from the variable window. In code-reading applications, potentially interfering edges outside the actual bar code are more effectively ignored. The recognition and processing of blurred or out-of-focus images of EAN-13/UPC-A bar codes has been improved, and 2/5 interleaved codes are detected with a higher tolerance for print growth, print loss, and overexposure.