What are the differences between FLIR Tools+ 6 with Report Studio and FLIR Tools+ 5?

FLIR Tools+ 6.x features a newly designed Microsoft Word add-in called Report Studio. The table below summarizes some of the key differences between the FLIR Tools+ Legacy Word Reporter and FLIR Tools+ 6.x/Report Studio.

Note: FLIR Tools+ 5.x Word templates are not compatible with Tools+ 6.x/Report Studio. You must recreate your templates with the new Report Studio Template Creator.  This only needs to be done once for each template.

Feature

Tools+ 5.x

FLIR Tools+ 6.x/Report Studio

Microsoft Office compatibility

2007–2016: 32-bit only
Only the full local installation of Office is supported
No support for Click-to-Run Office
See FAQ 1167 for more details

2010–2016: 32 and 64 bit

Custom Word templates

Yes

Yes

Large Word report creation

Size is limited for high-resolution cameras

No size limitation

Wizard for report creation

No

Yes

Report processing time

Slow

8× faster than Tools 5.x with legacy Word reporting

Report Property Editor in Word

No

Yes

Template Design Editor in Word

No

Yes.  Studio includes a special template editor module for adding and removing pages

Multiple page styles in a single Word report

No

Yes.  A Studio template can have more than one page style (e.g. "IR only" and "IR and photo")

Flat (non-radiometric) Word report

No

Yes

Full-screen image editor in the Word report and Wizard

No.  Images are edited on the page in the body of the document

Yes. The image editor opens in a separate window.  This can be opened from the Wizard or from the body of the Word report

Formula manager

No

Yes

PDF export

Only with Word's "Save as PDF" function

Yes.  From the FLIR tab in Word you can export to PDF

Saving custom tables

No

Yes.  Custom tables can be saved and reused in other reports and templates

Load and save Wizard sessions

No

Yes.  A Wizard session allows you to save a report in process, before the Word document is made, and return to it at a later time to add more images, etc.

Line profile graph

Yes

Coming soon

Histogram graph

Yes

Coming soon

Trending graph

Yes

Coming soon

Predefined user preferences for measurements, palette, etc.

Yes

Coming soon

 

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