Annotator

Overview

Annotate your images and let a picture say 1000 words.

• Load images from the file system, clipboard, or create a screenshot for annotation.
• Add shapes, stickers, images, text, drawings, and other callouts to highlight details in the image.
• Add magnifiers to enhance image details.
• Blur out parts of the image to hide data.
• Crop, resize, and add borders to images.
• Control colors, line thickness, and font details.
• Zoom support.
• Color picker support within a loaded image.
• Unlimited undo/redo for any change.
• Drag-and-drop PNG copies of the annotated image.
• Export to JPEG, PNG, TIFF, BMP, PDF, SVG, and WebP image formats.
• Support for copying the annotated image to the 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-7-dev
• libgtk-4-dev
• libxml2-dev
• libarchive-dev
• libwebp-dev

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 the elementary Flatpak from source, run ./app elementary.

To build the Flathub Flatpak from source, run ./app flathub.

Afterwards, you can run it via: ./app run-flatpak.

Credits

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

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