Image Annotation Software

PCI includes a comprehensive set of tools for annotating your images for record keeping, sending to clients or publishing.

Tools are provided for adding text, lines, arrows, polylines, freehand curves and two dimensional shapes to your images. Two dimensional shapes, including circles/ellipses, rectangles/squares, polygons and freehand drawings, can be filled or left unfilled. Text annotations can employ any Windows font at any size. You can set left, right or center justification for text annotations. You can specify line thicknesses and colors for all of the drawing elements.

Images can also be annotated with other images, to add, for example, an inset to an image or to add your logo.

In addition to the standard annotation tools, PCI also includes a set of measurement tools.

All of the measurements and annotations that you make on an image are contained in a separate overlay layer. This means that they can be moved and adjusted without affecting the underlying image. You can control how annotations overlap by controlling their “heights” in the overlay layer. Grayscale images can be annotated in color.

The use of the overlay layer also means that when you print your images or export them to PDF files, the annotations are drawn at high resolution avoiding jagged edges and unclear text.

At the appropriate time, you can choose to “burn” your annotations into the image to make them permanent.