/Annotator

Image annotation for Elementary OS

Primary LanguageValaGNU General Public License v3.0GPL-3.0

Annotator

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<center><b>Main Window - Light Theme</b></center>

Overview

Annotate your images and let a picture say 1000 words.

  • Load image from the file system, clipboard, or create a screenshot to annotate.
  • Add shapes, stickers, images, text, drawings, and other callouts to highlight image details.
  • Add magnifiers to enhance image details.
  • Blur out portions of the image to obfuscate data.
  • Crop, resize and add image borders.
  • Control colors, line thickness and font details.
  • Zoom support.
  • Color picker support within a loaded image.
  • Unlimited undo/redo of any change.
  • Drag-and-drop PNG copies of the annotated image.
  • Export to JPEG, PNG, TIFF, BMP, PDF and SVG image formats.
  • Support for copying annotated image to clipboard.
  • Printer support.

Installation

Debian (from source)

You will need the following dependencies to build Annotator:

  • meson
  • valac
  • debhelper
  • gobject-2.0
  • glib-2.0
  • libgee-0.8-dev
  • libgranite-dev
  • libxml2-dev
  • libgtk-3-dev
  • libhandy-1-dev

To install Annotator from source, run ./app install.

To run Annotator, run com.github.phase1geo.annotator.

Ubuntu (PPA)

You can use the PPA maintained by @PandaJim. The PPA supports Ubuntu 20.04+. Enter the following commands one by one

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/annotator
sudo apt update
sudo apt install com.github.phase1geo.annotator

Arch Linux

If you're an Arch Linux user, there's an AUR package annotator:

% yay -S annotator

Flatpak

Additionally, Annotator can be installed and run via Flatpak.

To build and install the Flatpak from source, run ./app flatpak.

Afterwards, you can run it via: flatpak run com.github.phase1geo.annotator.

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Credits

Incorporates document-edit-symbolic.svg and image-crop-symbolic.svg from elementary/icons, under the terms of the GPL v3.0 license.