Systems and methods to optimize imaging settings and image capture for a machine vision job

A fixed industrial scanner system comprising:

• a computing device executing an application, the application operable to configure a machine vision job having a barcode reading tool, wherein the barcode reading tool includes a selection of a plurality of banks of imaging parameters, each of the plurality of banks of imaging parameters being different from each other of the plurality of banks of imaging parameters;
• and
• an imaging device configured to execute the machine vision job such that the, during an execution of the barcode reading tool, the machine vision job causes the imaging device to:
• (a) capture a plurality of images with the imaging device operating pursuant to one of the plurality of banks of imaging parameters for capturing each of the plurality of images;
• (b) attempt to decode a barcode within one of the plurality of images;
• (c) responsive to successfully decoding the barcode within the image, measure a barcode quality metric (BQM) associated with the decoded barcode;
• (d) repeat (b)-(c) with another one of the plurality of images;
• and
• (e) store the image of the decoded barcode associated with the highest BQM.

A fixed industrial scanner system comprising:

• a computing device operable to configure a machine vision job with a plurality of banks of imaging parameters;
• and
• an imaging device configured to execute the machine vision job, such that the machine vision job causes the imaging device to:
• (a) capture an image pursuant to one of the banks of imaging parameters;
• (b) decode a barcode within the image;
• (c) measure a barcode quality metric (BQM) associated with the decoded barcode;
• (d) repeat (a)-(c) for each of the banks of imaging parameters;
• and
• (e) store the image of the decoded barcode associated with the highest BQM.