80% time savings
Studies show that independent developers finished tasks in 20% or less of the time that they needed to complete the same tasks with other comparable APIs.

Easy Image Acquisition and Camera Control for Your Applications
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The pylon SDKs provide easy-to-learn APIs in most common programming languages, beginner friendly for fastest productivity.
learn moreEasy camera evaluation and powerful tools for getting the best image out of your camera – Vignetting Correction, Sharpness, Bandwidth Manager and more.
learn moreStable, certified drivers for Windows, Linux, macOS, and Android, and easy interfacing via Gen<I>Cam and GenTL. Outstanding performance for your application.
learn moreEasy 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.
learn moreThe pylon camera software suite is free software that can be installed and used right after downloading.
Studies show that independent developers finished tasks in 20% or less of the time that they needed to complete the same tasks with other comparable APIs.
The simple structure of the pylon APIs lets users focus on the application itself during the development instead of having to deal with complicated camera connection issues.
With the easy-to-learn pylon APIs, and the context-related developer documentation that can be accessed directly from the pylon viewer, even pylon beginners can become productive right away.
Compared to the APIs from other providers, applications developed with pylon APIs require only about 40% of the programming code for the same functions. This also helps increase the stability and robustness of your applications.
Thanks to the reduced programming scope and the simplicity of developing your own application, the search for errors is also greatly simplified. Many potential causes of failure are completely avoided from the start.
With the pylon APIs, the target platform of the developed application does not play a role anymore. It is very easy to switch from a Windows environment to a Linux ARM environment without major code changes. This makes pylon perfectly suitable for easy development of embedded systems.
The Color Calibration Tool, a function of the pylon viewer, allows easy calibration of the colors of Basler MED ace cameras for medical and life science purposes.
You need only one software for all Basler MED ace cameras.
With pylon and the additional pylon supplementary package, also the Basler 3D cameras can be operated and configured. With the included blaze Viewer, the 3D image data can be optimally visualized. This allows you to efficiently use the advantages of pylon in the 2D and 3D world with just one API.
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.
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.
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.
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.
moreNVIDIA® 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.
moreThe pylon 7.3 release offers new, more budget-oriented vTools and new features for alignment, performance optimization and easier testing.
moreThe pylon ROS 2 driver now also enables the seamless integration of Basler 3D cameras into ROS projects.
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