apandada1 / annotator

Image annotation for Elementary OS

Annotator

Overview

Annotate your images and let a picture say 1000 words.

• Load image from the file system or clipboard.
• Add shapes, stickers, 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.
• Unlimited undo/redo of any change.
• 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.