With HALCON 13, MVTec offers deep-learning-based OCR for the first time: HALCON now contains a new OCR classifier and comes with a number of pre-trained fonts based on deep learning technology. With these, it is possible to achieve higher reading rates than with all previous classification methods.
Further, the automatic text reader in HALCON 13 is faster and now also supports reading of dot print characters. HALCON 13 also reads bar codes even if large parts of the code are either defective, or not visible at all. Additionally, the QR code reader has been improved and is now much more robust against common challenges like blur or distortion.