The image acquisition assistant is an easy-to-use front-end to the various image acquisition methods supported by HALCON. Firstly, it lets you read images from the file system, for example, selected files or whole directories. More importantly, it supports acquiring images from image acquisition devices that are supported by HALCON's image acquisition interfaces. When an image acquisition interface is selected, the corresponding device parameters, for example, the image format can be set. After establishing a connection to the selected interface, images can be grabbed and displayed in the active graphics window. Using live images, the parameters supported by the selected interface can be explored interactively.
When a suitable setup is achieved, the settings of the assistant can be saved for later reuse. The assistant can also be instructed to generate HDevelop code that will connect to the selected image acquisition interface, set the specified parameters and grab images.