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pylon Camera Software Suite

Easy Image Acquisition and Camera Control for Your Applications

Always the right choice to connect Basler cameras

Always the Right Choice to Connect Basler Cameras

Connecting your vision applications with Basler cameras requires the right software in place.

The Basler pylon Camera Software Suite consists of reliable, certified drivers for all kinds of camera interfaces, a powerful and easy programming interface, and a comprehensive set of tools for camera set-up.

It is available in versions for Windows, Linux, Linux ARM, MacOS, and Android.

Powerful tools for camera set-up

Powerful Tools for Camera Set-Up

Basler’s pylon provides you with a rich set of powerful tools for getting the best image out of your Basler camera, such as Vignetting Correction, Sharpness Indicator, Bandwidth Manager and many more.

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Easy to learn, faster results

Easy to Learn, Faster Results

With the easy-to-learn pylon APIs and context-related developer documentation, even pylon beginners can become productive right away.

The simple structure of the pylon APIs leads to fast development results, leaving the developers more time for other things.

Basler’s pylon Camera Software Suite includes APIs for C++, VB.Net, C#, C, and Java.

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Benefits of the pylon API

Certified drivers, reliable performance

Certified Drivers, Reliable Performance

Tried and trusted thousands of times, certified, and the performance speak for the stability of the pylon drivers, which have been optimized continuously for many years.

In comparison studies, pylon demonstrated an outstanding performance with regard to latency and jitter, making pylon suitable for stable image acquisition even in real-time applications.

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Components of the Basler pylon Camera Software Suite

Basler’s pylon consists of three components: SDKs for integration into application software, configuration tools for evaluating and setting-up cameras, and drivers and GenTL producers for reliable connectivity.

pylon SDKs

pylon SDKs

The pylon SDKs provide easy-to-learn APIs in most common programming languages, beginner friendly for fastest productivity.

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pylon Viewer

pylon Viewer

Easy camera evaluation and powerful tools for getting the best image out of your camera – Vignetting Correction, Sharpness, Bandwidth Manager and more.

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pylon drivers & GenTL

pylon drivers & GenTL

Stable, certified drivers for Windows, Linux, macOS, and Android, and easy interfacing via Gen<I>Cam and GenTL. Outstanding performance for your application.

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pylon vTools

pylon vTools

Easy creation of high-performance image processing functions for your applications. Structure recognition, object positioning or robust code recognition - perfectly matched to Basler's camera portfolio.

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Download pylon for your operating system

The pylon camera software suite is free software that can be installed and used right after downloading.

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pylon OS Versions and their Features

Basler´s pylon Camera Software Suite interface for Python

Basler´s pylon Camera Software Suite interface for Python

pypylon is an open source wrapper interface for the Basler pylon Camera Software Suite. It lets beginners and experienced Python programmers efficiently develop prototype applications and test Basler cameras without a complex development environment. Your benefits: faster camera evaluation, productive programming and reduced project costs.

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pylon Camera Driver for Robot Operating System (ROS)

pylon Camera Driver for Robot Operating System (ROS)

With the pylon camera driver for the Robot Operating System (ROS), you can develop robot applications, such as for logistics in Industry 4.0, using Basler GigE and USB 3.0 cameras in the process. ROS is an open source framework with development tools, algorithms and drivers for a variety of robot platforms.

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pylon GStreamer Plug-in for Basler Cameras

With pylon GStreamer for media applications such as streaming and video editing/playback we provide an open-source plug-in for the GStreamer multimedia framework. This allows all Basler cameras, including those with GigE Vision, USB3 Vision, CoaXPress and MIPI interfaces, to be used within the GStreamer framework.

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pylon News

pylon 7.3 for Mac with Apple silicon
11.07.2023

pylon 7.3 for Mac with Apple silicon

The pylon 7.3.1 release for Mac with Apple silicon enables the use of Basler GigE and USB3 Vision cameras on the latest macOS versions.

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NVIDIA’s DeepStream SDK Now Supports Basler Cameras
09.05.2023

NVIDIA’s DeepStream SDK Now Supports Basler Cameras

NVIDIA® has integrated Basler's pylon GStreamer plug-in into the new version of its DeepStream SDK. Now all Basler cameras with MIPI CSI-2, USB 3.0, and GigE interfaces are compatible with the SDK and with NVIDIA’s Jetson™ platform. This powerful combination enables AI-based machine vision applications to be developed faster and easier.

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New vTools for More Image Processing in pylon 7.3
03.05.2023

New vTools for More Image Processing in pylon 7.3

The pylon 7.3 release offers new, more budget-oriented vTools and new features for alignment, performance optimization and easier testing.

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Basler blaze Now Compatible with ROS 2
06.03.2023

Basler blaze Now Compatible with ROS 2

The pylon ROS 2 driver now also enables the seamless integration of Basler 3D cameras into ROS projects.

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