Welcome to the new Baumer GAPI SDK for C. Baumer GAPI is the proven solution to to integrate GenICam Cameras stable and highly performant. The Baumer GAPI SDK also supports programming in C++ and C# and is available for your choice of architecture; Windows x86 and x86-64, Linux x86-64, ARMhf and AArch64.
You can download the Baumer GAPI SDK for your preferred architecture from the Baumer Website.
Introduction to the Baumer GAPI SDK
Since more than 15 years, Baumer provides the Baumer GAPI SDK to help you integrate GenICam camera devices. The Baumer GAPI is widely used by numerous camera integrators in many industries. As camera hardware and computing devices becomes more powerful, more and more image recognition tasks are enabled and the usage of cameras in industrial application has skyrocketed. With the Baumer GAPI we offer full flexibility and full control to the expert users. The Baumer GAPI SDK targets single and multi-camera systems with highest performance requirements.
The Baumer GAPI SDK for C is based on the GenICam reference parser. It features
- Producers for U3V, GigE and 10GigE and support for GenTL 1.5
- Compatibility with GenICam cameras supporting SFNC up to version 2.3
- Node (feature), stream, chunk and event-handling
- The GUI Tool Camera Explorer to evaluate and provision cameras and as a monitoring solution
- The IP-Config-Tool for the network setup of GigE cameras
- Numerous examples to help getting started
- This documentation
Feel free to start browsing the API documentation now or read further to get more information about the underlying concepts or more help on how to get the API working on your system.
Machine vision basics — EMVA, GenICam, SFNC, what?
If you are new to machine vision you likely have never heard of the standards and the way how to work with a camera. We provide you with the basics to get you started quickly here.
Getting started with Baumer GAPI for C
If you want to start playing with your camera, follow this link to learn more about prerequisites, installation and the first steps.
Basic programming concepts
Here we explain the basic concepts for working with the Baumer GAPI for C.
Further help
In case of questions, suggestions or to raise an issue, please contact the Baumer camera support at suppo. rt.c amera s@ba umer. com
Documentation about your cameras can be found on the Baumer Website and in the Baumer Member Area which requires you to login.
Baumer application notes are also available on the Baumer website here.
Licence
Please see the <BaumerGAPIdir>\Docs\License\BaumerLicense_en.htm
file for licencing information.