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Hello,

What is file extension after manual annotation draw and save in Vintasoft Viewer?
How can we see or fetch details of that manual annotation file?

Currently we are using Pixtool to process Tiff and PDF file in our solution.
When we manually created annotation on TIFF then we get extension .ANN and this file use to see manual annotation in next level.

So do we have any solution to load those .ANN file with Vintasoft Viewer?

Hello Vikram,

Vintasoft annotation viewer can display Vintasoft and WANG annotations only.

If you need to convert custom annotations (in your case annotations in .ANN-file) to the Vintasoft annotations, you need to do the following steps:

• Load custom annotations from file (in your case you need to load annotations from .ANN-file using Pixtool library).
• Convert custom annotations to the Vintasoft annotations, i.e. create Vintasoft annotations similar to the custom annotations.
• Save Vintasoft annotations to the Vintasoft annotation packet.

Please read about annotation saving and loading processes here: https://www.vintasoft.com/docs/vsimagin ... _Load.html

Let me know if you will have any question or problem.

Best regards, Alexander

Do you have any method to convert Custom Annotation to Vintasoft annotation.

Hello,

Do you have any method to convert Custom Annotation to Vintasoft annotation.

We do not have ready-to-use algorithm, which allows to convert custom annotation to the Vintasoft annotation, because algorithm can be created only if you know information about type and properties of custom annotation.

For converting custom annotation to the Vintasoft annotation you need to do the following steps:

• Determine type of custom annotation (rectangle, ellipse, line, lines, polygon, etc).
• Determine Vintasoft annotation type that equals to the type of custom annotation (rectangle, ellipse, line, lines, polygon, etc). If you will not be able to determine Vintasoft annotation type for your custom annotation, you need to create custom annotation - please read how to create custom annotation here: https://www.vintasoft.com/docs/vsimagin ... ation.html
• Create Vintasoft annotation of necessary type (for example RectangleAnnotation).
• For each property (location, size, color, etc) of custom annotation find "equal" property in Vintasoft annotation and set correct value of Vintasoft annotation property.

Best regards, Alexander

Where we store annotation which is draw using Vintasoft Viewer?
How can we see or fetch details of that annotation file?

Hello,

VintaSoft Annotation .NET Plug-in can store annotations in Vintasoft binary packet, Vintasoft XMP packet, WANG packet. Vintasoft packets can be stored in metadata of PDF, TIF, PNG, JPEG file. WANG packet can be stored in metadata of TIFF file. Please read about supported annotation packets here: https://www.vintasoft.com/docs/vsimagin ... _Load.html

Best regards, Alexander