In a method for recording a thermographic inspection image (14) with, for example, an imaging inspection device (20), in particular a thermal imaging camera and/or a UV camera, a pyrometer and/or an imaging gas-leak detection system, it is provided that a feature or a marker (12) is identified with a feature recognition unit, and/or the perspective distortion of a recorded image (10, 14) is calculated, and that metadata (17, 18, 19) associated with the identified feature and/or marker (12) is output with the inspection image (14), and/or the inspection image (14) corrected for the perspective distortion is output in a standard perspective or in a standard representation.