How the camera sees misregister on a pharmaceutical label

To see misregister on a pharmaceutical label, the crosshairs must be in the field of view. If you cannot see it, change the light or the resolution first. Do not loosen the threshold first. The colour-to-colour crosshairs do not line up.

Misregister on a pharmaceutical label

To see misregister on a pharmaceutical label, the crosshairs must be in the field of view. If you cannot see it, change the light or the resolution first. Do not loosen the threshold first. The colour-to-colour crosshairs do not line up.

Misregister on a pharmaceutical label

Fix the optics first

The colour-to-colour crosshairs do not line up. If the picture cannot separate it, loosening the threshold only paints the legal text and the barcode red. The crosshairs must be in the field of view.

Optics

Need Enough Not enough
The crosshairs must be in the field of view. The colour-to-colour crosshairs do not line up. Only a blurred circle left
About 3 pixels across It stays It comes and goes, and you still write that it can be caught
the legal text and the barcode in the field of view The critical place is seen Only the decorative edge is lit

Try it on a sample

  1. Confirm the picture can separate it: The colour-to-colour crosshairs do not line up.
  2. Count about how many pixels it covers.
  3. If you cannot see it, change the light or the focus. Do not change the threshold.

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