The Windows software is distributed as an exe, and is not available for Mac or Linux. In order to use with other platforms, you can use Python and opencv, which has interface hooks to read video camera frames.

We tried this with Mac and Windows, on Windows we had to upgrade to the latest 4.3.0.36 opencv python package

Try out this example code, which will fetch frames and display them in opencv. Nothing else fancy is done, but you can build on this example!

import numpy as np
import time
import cv2
import struct

camera_num = 0

for camera_num in range(6):
    cam = cv2.VideoCapture(camera_num)
    if not cam.isOpened():
        print("Was not able to open camera", camera_num)
        cam.release()
        continue
    if not cam.set(3, 240):
        print("Was not able to set camera", camera_num, "width to 240 pixels")
        cam.release()
        continue
    if not cam.set(4, 321):
        print("Was not able to set camera", camera_num, "height to 321 pixels")
        cam.release()
        continue
    if cam.get(3) != 240:
        print("Was not able to set camera", camera_num, "width to 240 pixels")
        cam.release()
        continue
    break

print("Camera %d open at size: (%d x %d) %d FPS" % (camera_num, cam.get(3), cam.get(4), cam.get(5)))

cv2.namedWindow('Thermal Camera - Press Q to quit', cv2.WINDOW_NORMAL)
cv2.resizeWindow('Thermal Camera - Press Q to quit', 480, 642)

while(True):
    # Capture frame-by-frame
    ret, frame = cam.read()

    if not ret:
        print("Failed to fetch frame")
        time.sleep(0.1)
        continue
    #print("Frame OK!")
    colorframe = cv2.cvtColor(frame, cv2.COLOR_BGR2BGRA)
    # Display the resulting frame
    cv2.imshow('Thermal Camera - Press Q to quit', colorframe)

    cam.set(cv2.CAP_PROP_CONVERT_RGB, 0)
    ret, frame = cam.read()
    if not ret:
        print("Failed to fetch frame")
        time.sleep(0.1)
        continue
    print("Temp calculation (experimental): ", end="" )
    print(struct.unpack("h", frame[320][0][0:2])[0]/10)
    cam.set(cv2.CAP_PROP_CONVERT_RGB, 1)

    
    if cv2.waitKey(1) & 0xFF == ord('q'):
        break

    #yuvframe = cv2.cvtColor(frame, cv2.COLOR_RGB2YUV)
    #print(yuvframe[-1][0:3])
cam.release()
cv2.destroyAllWindows()

Run it at the command line with the camera plugged in!

% python opencv_uti165k.py

You may need to install opencv python package first with pip install opencv-python

The output will be exactly what is on the scanner's TFT display.

This guide was first published on Apr 29, 2020. It was last updated on Mar 19, 2024.

This page (Python Software) was last updated on Mar 18, 2024.

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