(openPR) - The easy-to-use software for machine vision is now faster and comes with a highly robust bar code reader.

Ease of use, high speed performance, immediate application building, and worldwide unique ready-to-use features: That is the result of almost 20 years’ experience in building machine vision software of MVTec Software GmbH, Munich, Germany. MVTec will launch the new version 3.2 of ActivVisionTools in May, 2008.

The speed of ActivVisionTools 3.2 has been significantly increased by using the SSE2 acceleration of the underlying HALCON 8.0 library. Thus, ActivVisionTools 3.2 is a real added value for customers. ActivVisionTools works as reliably as HALCON and inherits the power of that great machine vision software. Moreover, ActivVisionTools applications are integrable into any production process.

ActivVisionTools 3.2 also uses the highly robust bar code reader of HALCON 8.0. Beside the already supported bar codes such as EAN-13, UPC, Pharma Code, and data codes such as ECC 200, QR code, and PDF417, ActivVisionTools 3.2 additionally reads RSS-14 (GS1 DataBar) including all of its stacked and composite variations.

Furthermore, the image acquisition has been improved. For example, the image acquisition GUI was redesigned for better usability. Moreover, ActivVisionTools 3.2 provides the application ActivViewer for free which is able to acquire images from more than 50 frame grabbers and hundreds of industrial cameras. In particular, ActivVisionTools 3.2 offers interfaces to standards as GigE Vision, IIDC1394 (FireWire), and DirectShow. Besides ActivBarcode and ActivDatacode, also more tools are based on the HALCON library such as ActivAlignment, ActivBlobFinder, ActivMeasure, and ActivOCR. More information:
www.activ-vision-tools.com

Hannovermesse 2008 (Hanover, April 21-25): Hall 17, Booth B34
automatica 2008 (Munich, June 10-13): Hall B2, Booth 112

Contact:
Dr. Lutz Kreutzer, Manager PR & Marketing | MVTec Software GmbH, Neherstr.1, D-81675 München
Tel. +49 89 457695-0 | Fax +49 89 457695-55 | www.mvtec.com | press@mvtec.com

About MVTec

MVTec is a leading manufacturer of standard software for machine vision. MVTec products are used in all demanding areas of imaging: Semi-conductor industry, web inspection, quality control and inspection applications in general, medicine, and surveillance. MVTec has more than 30 established distributors, located throughout North- and South-America, Asia, Australia, and Europe. In addition, MVTec, LLC works out of Boston, MA (USA), to better attend the North-American market since 2007. For more information refer to www.mvtec.com