What is a LABEL file?
A .LABEL file is primarily a DYMO Label File. Users create these files with DYMO Label Software or the newer DYMO Connect application to design layouts for address labels, shipping tags, and barcodes. The software saves these visual layouts as text using the standard XML format.
Sometimes, a .LABEL file serves an entirely different purpose. Developers use .LABEL files to store machine learning image labels and semantic point cloud data in projects like TensorFlow. Occasionally, a shipping carrier generates a shipping label as a .LABEL file, which is actually just a renamed PDF document.
How to open LABEL files?
You can open a standard DYMO Label File using DYMO Label Software on Windows or macOS. Because the file stores data in XML, you can also inspect the raw layout code using a text editor like Notepad++ or Visual Studio Code. If the file is a machine learning dataset label, developers usually open it with Python scripts.
If you are unsure what your file contains, viewer.online/label analyzes .LABEL files to identify their exact format and creator software. It shows which programs can open the file and usually previews it directly in your browser.
Best practices and troubleshooting
If your computer fails to open a .LABEL file, check its internal structure. If it is a downloaded shipping label, it might be a renamed PDF. You can change the file extension to .PDF and open it with Adobe Acrobat Reader. For true DYMO files, avoid changing the internal XML structure manually, as this will break the design when you send it to the label printer.
Software and tools
The main application for these files is DYMO Label Software. For data science and machine learning label files, programmers rely on libraries within frameworks like TensorFlow.
Summary
Because .LABEL files use the known XML format, viewer.online/label can safely open and display them online, eliminating compatibility problems.