Software Provides Developers of Vision Components Smart Camera-Based Solutions with a New Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Option
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass - The Value Engineering Alliance, a leading provider of machine vision solutions, announces the availability of a Texas Instruments TMS320DM64X Digital Signal Processor-compatible industrial OCR library that can be used to turn Vision Components VC4XXX series smart cameras into stand-alone readers or OCR-enabled vision appliances.
Originally developed to serve as the OCR component in multifunctional wafer identification systems capable of reading BC412 bar codes and ECC200 Data Matrices in addition to alphanumeric IDs comprised of SEMI-OCR, IBM or CANON font characters, the software has been rigorously tested and its robustness proven under the challenging conditions often encountered at various stages of semiconductor manufacturing processes. Enabling it to recognize OCR-A and OCR-B font characters then significantly increased its appeal and potential to be used in other arenas.
Typical applications include the automatic reading of information that has been machine-marked (laserscribed, laserprinted, dotpeened/pinstamped, inkjet printed, etc.) on wafers, read/write heads, printed circuit boards, substrates, glass lenses/molds/containers, electronic components and carriers, medical/dental devices and instruments, automotive or aerospace components, direct mail pieces and packaged goods, consistent with identifying, matching, sorting, tracking, or verifying these products as they move through various manufacturing or laboratory processes.
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About The Value Engineering Alliance
Established in July of 1987, THE VALUE ENGINEERING ALLIANCE specializes in the conceptualization, development, marketing, selling, and implementation of machine vision solutions that lower the overall costs of laboratory and industrial manufacturing operations (analysis, assembly, inspection, test, control, identification, etc.) while achieving equivalent or enhanced levels of system/process performance and reliability.
Renowned as the supplier of application-specific vision software libraries used by several of the vision industry's premier players to enhance their existing offerings or expand into new application arenas, The VEA has been equally successful as a supplier of vision software and systems used in numerous industries by OEMs, system developers/integrators and automation engineers inside end user organizations. Based in Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA), the VEA operates worldwide via its extensive network of allied organizations and individuals. For additional information about the VEA's activities and areas of expertise, visit www.The-V-E-A.com.
