# Adding labels to points directly from a vtk file

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/adding-labels-to-points-directly-from-a-vtk-file/5964
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Tags:** vtk
**Created:** [December 3, 2020, 9:44am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/adding-labels-to-points-directly-from-a-vtk-file/5964 "2020-12-03T09:44:33Z")
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### Author: ![shakasaki](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/shakasaki/32/5437_2.png) [@shakasaki](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/shakasaki)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2020, 9:44am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/adding-labels-to-points-directly-from-a-vtk-file/5964/1 "2020-12-03T09:44:33Z")

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Hello, I’m not sure whether this is already asked (I found a few similar postings such as [here](https://github.com/pyvista/pyvista-support/issues?q=vtk+label) but that do not address this particular issue.  
I’m creating a set of points with [pyvista](https://docs.pyvista.org/) and attaching a label to each point. I then save this as a vtk format and load in Paraview 5.8.1. I see the points and can see that they have the “labels” property attached to them, but could not find a way of actually displaying the label. A screenshot is attached, as well as the vtk file that contains the points and labels.

Thank you for the feedback!

 ![Screenshot from 2020-12-03 10-42-45](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/default/original/2X/d/dc38e315598097692339ceee108cd96c53a6b3fe.png)  
[sensors.vtk](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/short-url/1pxvQFYphZSHkKTGworwaEBkuy2.vtk) (6.5 KB)