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HALCON 8.0.2HALCON is the comprehensive standard software library with an integrated development environment (IDE) for machine vision that is used worldwide. It leads to cost savings and improved time to market: HALCON's flexible architecture facilitates rapid development of machine vision, medical imaging, and image analysis applications. HALCON provides an extensive library of more than 1300 operators with outstanding performance for blob analysis, morphology, pattern matching, measuring, 3D object recognition, and binocular stereo vision, to name just a few. HALCON secures your investment by supporting the operating systems Windows, Linux, and Solaris. The full library can be accessed from common programming languages like C, C++, C#, Visual Basic .NET, and Delphi. HALCON guarantees hardware independence by providing interfaces to more than 50 frame grabbers and hundreds of industrial cameras (analog, Camera Link, USB 2.0, IEEE 1394, and GigE). Parallel HALCONHALCON can be used in two modes: Standard HALCON is optimized for single-processor computers. In contrast, Parallel HALCON actively exploits the power of multi-core and multiprocessor computers to speed up machine vision applications. Furthermore, Parallel HALCON supports multithreading by being reentrant. Like Standard HALCON, Parallel HALCON can be used in two ways: You can integrate the corresponding operator libraries in your own C++, Visual Basic, C#, or C programs, or you can use Parallel HDevelop, the parallelized version of HDevelop. More information can be found in the Programmer's Guide. HALCON Demo VersionThe HALCON demo version is a version of the development environment HDevelop with the full image processing functionality, but some limitations:
With the demo version, you can test all HALCON operators with full functionality for an unlimited period of time. Getting Started with HALCONYou can download and install both the demo and the product version. The product version requires a license; you can obtain a temporary license from your local distributor free of charge. During the installation, a license agreement must be accepted, which can be found here or in the file 'eula.txt' in the folder you have chosen for the installation. If you have been using a HALCON release based on an older version, e.g., HALCON 7.1 or HALCON 7.1.2, we recommend to uninstall this release before installing HALCON 8.0.2. If you are using ActivVisionTools, an update to version 3.2 is necessary (see the Installation Guide for details). Note that all HALCON 7.1 licenses must be replaced or upgraded. Please contact your local distributor. If you have been using HALCON 8.0, you can update to HALCON 8.0.2. HALCON 8.0 licenses are also valid for HALCON 8.0.2. In the following, the different installation procedures are described.
All HALCON versions are available for download, together with detailed information how to install them. Further information on the installation procedure can be obtained from the Installation Guide. If you have been using HALCON 8.0 or HALCON 8.0.1, you can update it to HALCON 8.0.2. Please refer to the MVTec's download area for more details. We recommend the following steps:
More Information About HALCONHALCON includes extensive documentation, from release notes over a description of the HALCON image acquisition interfaces to user's and reference manuals. Note that the links below point to where the installation or download process places the documentation. If you did not install or download the documentation, the corresponding links do not work. Further information, e.g., about HALCON distributors, can be found on the HALCON home page. HDevelop's online help provides a full-text search in the
complete documentation. This search is based on Swish-e.
If you have been using an earlier version of HALCON, please take a look at the Release Notes to see what is new in this version of HALCON.
Each HALCON image acquisition interface is described in detail on a separate HTML page, which can be accessed from a common start page. |
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