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[#]: subject: "Annotator: Open-Source App for Linux to Easily Add Essential Annotations to Your Images"
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[#]: via: "https://itsfoss.com/annotator/"
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[#]: author: "Ankush Das https://itsfoss.com/author/ankush/"
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[#]: collector: "lujun9972"
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Annotator: Open-Source App for Linux to Easily Add Essential Annotations to Your Images
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_**Brief:**_ _An exciting and useful annotation tool with additional features for Linux systems._
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When it comes to image manipulation and editing, there are many tools available. However, options like GIMP are not necessarily the solution to everything.
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Yes, GIMP offers plenty of features for beginners and advanced users, but it could be time-consuming to learn something and apply visual enhancements to any image you want.
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Annotator is an impressive open-source tool that lets you do a lot of things in a couple of clicks.
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### Annotator: Open-Source Image Annotation Tool
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![][1]
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Annotator lets you quickly add shapes, texts, and other visual elements. This is useful for a variety of use-cases.
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The tool is easy to use and offers a simple user interface. And, you also get a variety of features to enhance the images you want.
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### Features of Annotator
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![Adding icons to images][2]
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Not just limited to adding enhancements to an image, but you also get some other functionalities with Annotator. Some of the key features are:
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* Ability to add a text
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* Customize the text color, adjust the size, tweak the highlight color, and more
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* Use magnifying tool to focus on a particular point in image
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* Tweak the magnifier to change the angle, and size
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* Add visual icons to express something
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* Use pencil to write, useful for trackpad users
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* Blur tool to obfuscate important or unnecessary details
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* Counter icons to highlight important any sort of order in an image
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* Supports multiple fonts
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* Adjust the border width and lines for shapes and texts
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* Various shapes like arrow, circle, and star available
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* Ability to resize and crop images
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![][3]
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### Installing Annotator in Linux
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Primarily, Annotator is available on AppCenter for elementaryOS. But, fortunately, it is a Flatpak package, so that you can install it on any Linux distribution.
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All you need to do is head to the AppCenter store’s link and then download/open the **Flatpak ref** file using the software installer. We have more information on this in our [Flatpak guide][4], if you need help.
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[Annotator][5]
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To build from the source or explore more about it, you can check out its [GitHub page][6].
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### Thoughts on Using Annotator
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I find it useful for my work, considering we need to deal with various screenshots every day. And, the more descriptive, the better the images for our readers to understand.
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Usually, I use Flameshot as my screenshot tool and add annotations available through it. There are other [screenshot tools available for Linux][7], but I prefer Flameshot for its quick annotation features.
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However, you cannot use Flameshot or any other screenshot tool to add annotations to existing images.
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Hence, Annotator came in handy to edit existing screenshots or any other images needed.
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All of its features worked well in my brief usage, but I’d want to edit and re-size the text to be more intuitive. Other than that, I have no complaints.
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I’d recommend you give this a try if you need to add highlights/annotations to the images on your system. Let me know your thoughts in the comments down below.
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via: https://itsfoss.com/annotator/
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作者：[Ankush Das][a]
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选题：[lujun9972][b]
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译者：[译者ID](https://github.com/译者ID)
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校对：[校对者ID](https://github.com/校对者ID)
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本文由 [LCTT](https://github.com/LCTT/TranslateProject) 原创编译，[Linux中国](https://linux.cn/) 荣誉推出
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[a]: https://itsfoss.com/author/ankush/
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[b]: https://github.com/lujun9972
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[1]: https://i2.wp.com/itsfoss.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/annotator.png?resize=800%2C573&ssl=1
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[2]: https://i0.wp.com/itsfoss.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/annotator-screenshot.png?resize=800%2C410&ssl=1
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[3]: https://i0.wp.com/itsfoss.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/annotator-resize.png?resize=800%2C490&ssl=1
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[4]: https://itsfoss.com/flatpak-guide/
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[5]: https://appcenter.elementary.io/com.github.phase1geo.annotator/
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[6]: https://github.com/phase1geo/Annotator
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[7]: https://itsfoss.com/take-screenshot-linux/
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