14Imagechecker P400MA and P400Inspection functionsObject identification and position detection made easyInspection and verification of characters, codes and printsOCR/OCVA powerful tool to read and verifycharacters, strings and symbols. Wehave expanded the functionality of thischecker. Now, also rotated or evencurved strings can be read.P400 systems offer various tools to check the quality and completeness of complete prints, to read strings of characters (OpticalCharacter Recognition), to verify strings (Optical Character Verification) or to read a variety of different codes. The employedtechniques guarantee high reliability and precision even under severe inspection conditions.Vision P400 includes several algorithms which allow fast, reproducible andprecise recognition, identification and location of objects. Our powerfulContour-Matching Checker is an especially impressive tool for suchinspection tasks. It evaluates objects based on previously trained models,judging geometric information instead of pixel patterns, thereby achievingrevolutionary stability and detection speed. Furthermore this algorithm canhandle all those disruptive factors, which often disqualify conventionalinspection methods for the real factory environment: fluctuating illumination,changing object appearance, touching and overlapping objects.Gray value imageContour templatePrint inspectionTypically blurred or incomplete imprintshave to be detected. P400 is able tolocalize quality deviations which canbarely be seen by the human eye.2D code readingThis newly developed Checker reads Dcodes such as Datamatrix, ECC00 andQR code. Regardless of whether thecodes are randomly twisted or seriouschanges in brightness occur, thispowerful checker will read them reliably.Setting the checker is as easy asdrawing a rectangle.BarcodeAlmost any barcode can be read withthis tool. /5 Industrial, Code 39/93/18,EAN 13, EAN 8, UPC-A/E, andPr Pharma Code are just a fewexamples.08/2008