Opticon/Concordance

.OPT File

The load file for a Concordance database with an Opticon (or, more recently called, a Concordance Image) image viewer is called an .OPT file. The Opticon load file is a page level load file (see the .OPT example line below), with each line representing one image.

.OPT example line:

ZY00001,ZY01,D:\IMAGES\001\ZY00001.TIF,Y,,,3

 

The fields are, from left to right:

  • Image Key – (ZY00001) – The image (page) identifier
  • Volume Name – (ZY01) – The volume identifier. The volume name is not required, but must have comma (blank fields are two consecutive commas with no other text in between, e.g. ",,")
  • Full path to image – (D:\IMAGES\001\ZY00001.TIF) – a path to the image to be loaded
  • Image type – (Y) – Document marker – a "Y" indicates the start of a unique document
  • Doc Break – (blank) – unused
  • Box break – (blank) – unused
  • Number of pages in document – (3) – often used to store page count

.DAT File

For the searchable text that gets loaded in the Concordance database, a separate .DAT file is produced. The first line of the .DAT file contains a 'header row' (with delimiters) that lists the field names that correspond to the data type between each delimiter in each row. When loading a .DAT file, this is the simplest way to see if the data loaded correctly.

Each row in the file is equal to a record in the database. Concordance displays records in the same order in which they were loaded. Therefore, a disordered load file results in a disordered database. Each value between a delimiter is equal to a field within a record in the database.

For more information, consult your vendor.