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 |
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 |