The newest HALCON 12 maintenance release is now available for download.
This release comes with major improvements in bar code reading. The improvements address two common issues with bar codes: print growth and overexposure. Print growth is a problem occurring when too much ink was used for printing the bar code on the product, or when the surface of the object is rough and therefore the ink spreads too much. Thus, the black bars are significantly thicker than they should be. Overexposure leads to the opposite effect. Here, the black bars a
re significantly thinner than they should be.
With HALCON 12.0.2 the range from extreme overexposure to extreme print growth that HALCON is able to read has been widened significantly in both cases.
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Watch MVTec’s video on bar code reading improvements with HALCON 12.02