20.4 Adding an image description
General
An image description is a brief textual description that is saved in an infrared image.
The image description can be retrieved from the image file using software from other
companies.
Differences
between a text
annotation and an
image description
Image descriptions and text annotations differ in several ways:
A text annotation is a proprietary annotation format from FLIR Systems, and the
information cannot be retrieved by other vendors’ software. An image description
uses a standard tag in the JPG file format and can be retrieved by other software.
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The structure of a text annotation relies on information pairs (label and value), while
an image description does not. An image description file can have virtually any
information structure.
Procedure
Follow this procedure to add an image description:
To preview an image, push Preview/Save button. This will display the doc-
umentation toolbar.
1
Move the joystick left to select the text annotation toolbar button.
2
Push the joystick to display the text annotation and image description work
area.
For information about the work area, see section 10.1.4 – Text annotation
and image description work area on page 25.
3
Select the image description tab, using the joystick. This will display a
keyboard on the screen.
4
Type your image description by tapping the keyboard buttons using the
stylus pen.
5
Select the OK button at the bottom of the screen and push the joystick. The
image description is now saved in the image file.
6
On the documentation toolbar, select Save and push the joystick.7
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