Station for checking tyres in a tyre production line, the station comprising: - a support adapted to support the tyre set on a sidewall and to rotate the tyre around a rotation axis thereof; - an apparatus and - a movement member, wherein the apparatus comprises: - a support frame; - a flange for attaching said support frame to said movement member; - an acquisition system for acquiring digital images of a surface of said tyre mounted on said support frame, said acquisition system comprising: - a linear camera having a first optical axis, an optical plane, a focal plane and an objective line belonging to the focal plane and to the optical plane, and - an illumination system adapted to illuminate at least said objective line, the illumination system comprising a light source adapted to emit incoherent light and an optical lens system having a second optical axis, characterized in that the optical lens system comprises a first converging lens, proximal to the light source, and a second converging lens, arranged on the side opposite the light source with respect to the first lens, wherein the light source, the first lens and the second lens are coaxial with said second optical axis, wherein the first lens has a numerical aperture greater than or equal to 0.5 and wherein an aperture of said second lens is greater than an aperture of said first lens. - a support adapted to support the tyre set on a sidewall and to rotate the tyre around a rotation axis thereof; - an apparatus and - a movement member, wherein the apparatus comprises: - a support frame; - a flange for attaching said support frame to said movement member; - an acquisition system for acquiring digital images of a surface of said tyre mounted on said support frame, said acquisition system comprising: - a linear camera having a first optical axis, an optical plane, a focal plane and an objective line belonging to the focal plane and to the optical plane, and - an illumination system adapted to illuminate at least said objective line, the illumination system comprising a light source adapted to emit incoherent light and an optical lens system having a second optical axis, characterized in that the optical lens system comprises a first converging lens, proximal to the light source, and a second converging lens, arranged on the side opposite the light source with respect to the first lens, - a support frame; - a flange for attaching said support frame to said movement member; - an acquisition system for acquiring digital images of a surface of said tyre mounted on said support frame, said acquisition system comprising: - a linear camera having a first optical axis, an optical plane, a focal plane and an objective line belonging to the focal plane and to the optical plane, and - an illumination system adapted to illuminate at least said objective line, the illumination system comprising a light source adapted to emit incoherent light and an optical lens system having a second optical axis, characterized in that the optical lens system comprises a first converging lens, proximal to the light source, and a second converging lens, arranged on the side opposite the light source with respect to the first lens, - a linear camera having a first optical axis, an optical plane, a focal plane and an objective line belonging to the focal plane and to the optical plane, and - an illumination system adapted to illuminate at least said objective line, the illumination system comprising a light source adapted to emit incoherent light and an optical lens system having a second optical axis, characterized in that the optical lens system comprises a first converging lens, proximal to the light source, and a second converging lens, arranged on the side opposite the light source with respect to the first lens,