Plugin-Free Annotations in Alfresco Share Tony Parzgnat Technical Architect Technology Services Group September 24 th, 2014

Annotations Overview Markup added to electronic documents or images that does not alter the original content Text Edits Comments Call-outs

OpenAnnotate Introduction Open source annotation tool developed by Technology Services Group Supported Formats Any format that can be rendered to PDF (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, RTF, etc.) Any image format that can be converted to PNG (JPEG, TIFF, GIF, etc.)

OpenAnnotate Usecases Documents General proofreading and peer review Review of controlled documents during electronic workflow Images Medical imaging – virtual slides Photo face tagging

OpenAnnotate Advantage Completely browser based (IE8+, Chrome, Firefox, Safari) Requires NO browser plugins or client software install

Basic Annotation Tools Sticky Notes Lines Arrows Circles/Ellipses Squares/Rectangles

Enhanced Text Tools Highlight Strikethrough Insert text at location

Reply to Comments Users can respond to each other’s comments

Annotation Summary Provides a quick view of all annotations in a document with hyperlinks

Save as PDF Because annotations are compliant with Adobe XML Forms Data Format (XFDF) standard, annotations can be “burned in” and exported as a PDF

Annotation Security Users can collaborate, view, and reply to each other’s annotations Users can only modify their own annotations Annotations saved as separate objects in Alfresco, leaving original document intact

Alfresco Share Integration Launch OpenAnnotate seamlessly from the Share Document Library

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Resources OpenAnnotate Info and Demos TSG Blog Tony Parzgnat –