Acquisition

With these tools, you can acquire images for your application:

Use an image file format that is suited for your purposes regarding speed, color and quality. For example jpeg may make it harder to detect edges while png may have longer reading and writing times.

Common Use Cases

Use this overview to find the right tool to acquire images depending on the available sources. Keep in mind that different configuration options are available depending on the tool.

Task	Tool	Usage
Acquire images from a file or a folder	Acquire Image from File	Acquire images from files. You can select a single image, a series of images, or a whole folder.
Get the images that were acquired from an image source via the Image Source Manager	Image Source	Get the images that were acquired from camera devices or image file directories using the Image Source Manager. This tool allows you to use image sources that have been set up independently from the MERLIC Vision App. This way, you can reuse image source configurations for multiple MVApps and an MVApp can be used with different image source configurations. Configuration The configuration of the image sources is done in the "Image Sources" tab of the MERLIC RTE Setup. The configuration is also possible on remote systems and under certain circumstances even during the process integration mode. For more information see the topic MERLIC Image Source Manager (ISM).

Task

Tool

Usage

Acquire images from a file or a folder

Acquire Image from File

Acquire images from files. You can select a single image, a series of images, or a whole folder.

Get the images that were acquired from an image source via the Image Source Manager

Image Source

Get the images that were acquired from camera devices or image file directories using the Image Source Manager. This tool allows you to use image sources that have been set up independently from the MERLIC Vision App. This way, you can reuse image source configurations for multiple MVApps and an MVApp can be used with different image source configurations.

Configuration

The configuration of the image sources is done in the "Image Sources" tab of the MERLIC RTE Setup. The configuration is also possible on remote systems and under certain circumstances even during the process integration mode. For more information see the topic MERLIC Image Source Manager (ISM).