To provide a visual inspection apparatus which can remove a bad article by precisely and economically inspecting the flaw of appearance regardless of the shape or color of a commodity such as a processed part or a drug.

The visual inspection apparatus includes a supply part A for supplying an inspection target without discriminating the inside and outside thereof, an inside and outside determining and classifying part B for imaging the upper side surface of the supplied inspection target to determine the inside and outside of the inspection target and classifying the inspection target the upper side surface of which is inside and the inspection target the upper side surface of which is outside and an inspection part C constituted of a first feed lane for inspecting the inside of the inspection target first of all and reversing the inspection target to inspect the outside thereof and a second feed lane for inspecting the outside of the inspection target first of all and reversing the inspection target to inspect the inside thereof. A plurality of inspection cameras are installed on the respective feed lanes to detect various inside abnormalities and the inspection target determined to be the bad article by the image processing of taken image data is discharged from the feed lanes by a discharge means.