IMPACT Excels at Character Recognition
OCR tool solves Traceability, ID, sorting and quality inspections
PPT VISION's best-in-class OCR (Optical
Character Recognition) tool reliably reads
even challenging dot-matrix print.
OCR versus OCV
OCR actually decodes readable printed
text and is often used in sorting
applications. OCV (Optical Character
Verification) checks a character or character
string against a known pattern. OCV is often
used to verify that the correct date or lot code
was printed. IMPACT effectively solves both
OCR and OCV applications.
What Makes PPT VISION so Robust with
OCR applications?
Challenging print surfaces and
less-than-ideal character prints are
repeatedly read by IMPACT smart cameras
because PPT VISION's OCR tool has built-in
thresholding and segmentation. If the OCR
tool itself doesn't tame challenging prints,
PPT VISION's powerful image processing tools,
with
capabilities not available on competing
smart cameras can be deployed for reliable code
reading.
Number of Barcodes Read by IMPACT Triples
8.5 Software reads 17 standard 1D and 2D barcodes
Its character reading capability combined
with its tools enabling it to read 17
standard barcode types make IMPACT smart
cameras ideal traceability solutions.
IMPACT 8.5 software reads ECC 200 DataMatrix
2D barcodes in addition to these 16 standard
1D barcodes:
Where Smart Cameras Are Deployed Today
AIA Report Recognizes PPT VISION as the Industry Standard for Posted Applications
What is the authoritative source for
examples of smart camera applications?
According to the 2009 Automated Imaging
Association (AIA) Machine Vision Market
Report, the place to learn about smart-camera
applications by industry is pptvision.com.
Ensuring a Complete Seal
Impact Inspects Adhesive Bead Placement and Coverage
Dispensed beads of adhesive or mastic are
frequently used today as a better
alternative to spot welding in automobile and
other transportation equipment. In addition
to proving a superior connection between body
components, modern adhesive materials also
provide sound deadening and other benefits.
Dispensing beads can have sticky issues at
the applicator point that are not detected by
monitoring the flow of adhesive material.
PPT VISION IMPACT smart cameras step in here
with custom tools and HMI interfaces to
monitor dispensed beads. Programming the
tool is a simple matter of clicking on a
bead's origination. IMPACT's powerful
algorithm takes it from there, snaking
through the curves of the bead and monitoring
it for width, length and any gaps.
Bradley's Corner; Application Notes
Happy New Year!
As some of you may have seen already we have
added another application note to our website
- Bearings. As a friendly New Year's reminder
- you can find all our applications notes at
pptvision.com in the Solutions section,
http://www.pptvision.com/solutions.html.
The application notes are a great source of
information for our partners and for our
customers. They greatly help both the PPT
VISION staff and our partner field engineers
in creating better solutions for a particular
customer problem.
We also get constant requests for more. We
acknowledge this and plan to produce many
more this year. We need your help. Though
these notes seem easy, they require a lot of
assistance. We need permission to use images
and company names. We need to know what the
issue is (describe the problem that resulted
in a solved vision application), the cost(s)
of leaving the issue unresolved and finally
how did PPT VISION solve it -- images of VPM or
CPM screens and a description of the tools
deployed.
If you would like to contribute, please feel
free to contact me at bweber@pptvision.com or
Jeff Schmitz at jeffs@pptvision.com.
PPT VISION's best-in-class OCR (Optical
Character Recognition) tool reliably reads
even challenging dot-matrix print.
What is the authoritative source for
examples of smart camera applications?
According to the 2009 Automated Imaging
Association (AIA) Machine Vision Market
Report, the place to learn about smart-camera
applications by industry is pptvision.com.
