Hi Oliver National Instruments has some software called VBAI (Vision Builder for Automated Inspection) which is supposed to do error checking and automatic analysis of pictures to give pass/fail inspection results. I haven't used the software myself so I'm not totally sure how it works, but NI has some very useful tutorials and demo movies on their website (www.ni.com/vision). good luck, Joe Grogan Olivier MILLET wrote: > Hi, > > We are looking for a software allowing the automatic detection of > defects on microscope pictures/captions of surfaces (size, shapes),