The present invention relates to a device for identifying anomalies on medical instruments, having a data processing installation and an instrument analyzing unit. The data processing installation has a display unit, a database, a first interface and an evaluation unit and the instrument analyzing unit has a support and at least one camera. The at least one camera is arranged and oriented such that it can capture image data from medical instruments arranged on the support from at least one perspective, and the data processing installation is designed such that it uses the first interface to receive image data from the at least one camera and can store the received image data in the database. Further, it can use the evaluation unit to examine said image data for regions which have anomalies. In addition, the invention also relates to an according method.
