FLIR B series User Manual page 114

20 – Annotating images
Valid file format
The valid file format for a text annotation is *.tcf. A *.tcf file is a text file with one of
the following two encodings:
■
■
To create a *.tcf file, write your text using a text editor (e.g. Notepad on PCs), save
the file with ANSI or UTF-8 encoding. The file must have the suffix *.tcf: add or edit
the filename as appropriate. You can also use the text annotation editor in FLIR Re-
porter to create text annotations.
Maximum number The maximum number of characters in a *.tcf file is 512 characters per label and
of characters
value, respectively.
Example markup
This is an example markup structure of a *.tcf file. The words between angled
structure
brackets are labels, and the words without angled brackets are values.
<Company>
Company A
Company B
Company C
<Building>
Workshop 1
Workshop 2
Workshop 3
<Section>
Room 1
Room 2
Room 3
<Equipment>
Tool 1
Tool 2
Tool 3
<Recommendation>
Recommendation 1
Recommendation 2
Recommendation 3
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ANSI encoding (supported in FLIR Reporter)
UTF-8 encoding (not supported in FLIR Reporter). This encoding must be used
for all writing systems outside the ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1) encoding, e.g. Japanese
or Cyrillic.
Publ. No. 1558792 Rev. a460 – ENGLISH (EN) – July 1, 2010