Rich Choice of Interfaces
pylon allows connecting your cameras via USB3 Vision, GigE Vision, CoaxPress, and Camera Link. For embedded systems, even BCON for LVDS and MIPI are supported.
pylon Drivers & GenTL
Stable Operation and Outstanding Performance on All Platforms
For the best possible operation of your Basler camera, pylon provides you with a set of optimized drivers for a rich choice of interfaces. Regardless of your decision, pylon’s drivers will guarantee the most reliable and fastest operation of your Basler cameras in real-time quality.
Your Advantages with pylon Drivers and GenTL
Real-time performance
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.
Easy Connection via GenTL
Basler’s pylon camera software suite comprises GenTL producers for most interfaces, allowing you to connect your application directly and in a standardized way to the pylon drivers.
GenTL producers are available for USB3 Vision, GigE Vision, CoaxPress and BCON for MIPI.
Compression Beyond via GenTL
The GenTL producers of pylon automatically decompress compressed images from cameras that support the Compression Beyond feature, lossy and lossless.
Note: The Compression Beyond feature is available on selected ace 2 Pro camera models only.
Download pylon for your operating system
The pylon camera software suite is free software that can be installed and used right after downloading.
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 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 SDKs
The pylon SDKs provide easy-to-learn APIs in most common programming languages, beginner friendly for fastest productivity.
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Basler pylon vTools: Image Processing Modules for the New pylon 7
Intelligent structure recognition, precise object positioning or robust code recognition: design, test and flexibly integrate into your own application in one go with camera control and image acquisition! Always perfectly matched to Basler's camera portfolio. Test it now free of charge!
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New pylon version 6.3 with multi-channel CXP-12 support!
The new pylon 6.3.0 for Windows and Linux comes to empower the use of new boost cameras with 2 x CXP-12 interface. In combination with the new CXP-12 Interface Cards 2C/4C offering 2 and 4 channels, pylon enables the smooth and easy realization of multi-camera CXP applications now.
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A New Dimension for pylon
One software suite for all Basler cameras, true to the motto "one fits all": now Basler's 3D cameras can also benefit from all the advantages of the popular Basler pylon Camera Software Suite.
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pylon Release 6.2.0 Supports New Basler boost Camera Models
Our pylon Camera Software Suite is now available in its new version for Windows, Linux and MacOS. Effective immediately, this release offers support primarily for the new Basler boost camera models.
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Basler Cameras for Android Applications
Thanks to the Basler pylon software, the Basler computer vision portfolio can now also be used for applications on Android systems.
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pylon for macOS - Now in the new version 6.1.2
The new pylon release for macOS offers several new features. We’ll present an overview. Basler's popular pylon Camera Software Suite for macOS is now available in the new version 6.1.2. This version provides users with a number of features that were previously only available in the Windows and Linux versions. The new version also runs under macOS Catalina (10.15).
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Compression Beyond and More with the pylon Camera Software Suite 6.1
The new pylon 6.1 release is available now. It includes Compression Beyond for image compression on ace 2 Pro cameras, support of CoaXPress 2.0 for Linux x86 and an improved Features pane in the pylon Viewer.
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