# Results Explorer

With Results Explorer you can filter the results collected by Cognex devices and find the data that is most important to you.

On the device tree select the reader you wish to use with Results Explorer.

Double-clicking the selected device automatically brings you to the Results Explorer window, which provides a list of all trigger acquisitions on thereader and further information about each.

To filter acquisition details for the selected device, fill in the entry fields on the top of the Results Explorer window:

- In Read string entry field, you can look over the triggers that contain a specific character string.
- In Trigger Index entry field, you can filter trigger acquisitions by typing in or copy the number of the trigger Index.
- In the Trigger Type Filter drop-down menu, you can choose from the options:
  - Good Read
  - No Read
  - Validation Failure

- Use the Date & Time Range Filter to specify the time range of the results. For more information see Date & Time Range Filter
- Click the Download button to download the captured images to your computer.
- Select the Normalize images checkbox, to increase image contrast. Unselect the checkbox to set the images back to default.

You can change the view of the selected image in the image pane with the Device Display Controls. For more information see Device Display Controls.

In the sidebar on the right, you can see more in-depth decode results for each of the trigger acquisitions on the list.