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Software development kit

All XIMEA cameras are supported by our unified API/SDK.
Below is the description of interability and vast potential it offers.

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Software packages

Our Software packages contain camera drivers, API libraries, examples and tools for different OS.

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Windows

XIMEA Windows Software Package is an installer, that can run on: Microsoft Windows 11, Microsoft Windows 10, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows 2008 R2.
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macOS

XIMEA macOS Software Package is a native DMG installer that can run on: Computers with Intel x86 or Apple-M1, macOS 10.8 (Mountain Lion) and above, macOS 10.11 or above is required for xiC (MC) cameras
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Linux

XIMEA Linux Software Package is a tarred installer of xiAPI with examples. It is designed to run on most common Linux distribution that includes the usual tools and libraries like: Ubuntu, Red Hat, Arch, Gentoo etc.

Application programming interfaces

Languages and standards.

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xiAPI

Streamlined API/SDK, plain C/C++.
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xiAPI.NET

C# Managed .NET Common Language Runtime (CLR) API/SDK.
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xiAPI Python

Applications in Python can access XIMEA cameras using xiAPI Python interface.
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GenTL

GenICam/GenTL provides an agnostic transport layer interface to acquire images or other data and to communicate with a device. Each camera can be GenTL producer.

Application tools

There are several utilities available for customers for comfortable use of XIMEA cameras.

CamTool

Cam tool

Viewer like tool for setting parameters, recording video and much more.
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xiCOP

Diagnostic tool to make the cameras work effectively on different PC setups.

Development environments

There are several utilities available for customers for comfortable use of XIMEA cameras.

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Jupyter

Simple application development in JupyterLab using the Python API.

Machine vision libraries

XIMEA API supports more than 30 of the most popular Machine Vision Libraries.

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Vision libraries

Find a list of vision libraries supported in Windows.