(Cognex Corp.: Natick, MA) -- Cognex Corp. announces the launch of VisionPro 7.0 machine vision software. VisionPro 7.0 introduces Inspection Designer, a new concept to simplify development and field maintenance of inspection applications. VisionPro 7.0 also adds 1DMax, a best-in-class barcode reading tool optimized for omnidirectional and difficult to read 1-D barcodes, as well as several new tool and acquisition enhancements.

The introduction of Inspection Designer, a first of its kind for general inspection applications, provides vision systems integrators and end-users with the functionality to simplify the specification, development, and maintenance of inspection applications. Inspection Designer offers three main benefits:

Definition of defects. A new image grading utility allows integrators and end-users to easily grade product images and to specify different defect types within each image. The image grading utility creates a library of graded images for the next step of the process.

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