Tiff Image Annotations from Web Client??

[bmarbury]

I'm evaluating the Alfresco web client as a replacement for an existing document management system.

In the current system, we make extensive use of annotations to tiff documents which are stored separately from the original image.  This is a requirement because we don't want the annotations displayed to every audience and prefer to keep the original intact.  The documents are annotated "online/inline" so the user does not have to download, edit, upload.  This is also a requirement.

I have reviewed many posts in this and other forums on inline editing and saving annotations but have not found a satisfactory answer on how this might be done.

My assumption is that a separate browser plugin or applet would need to be used in order to manage storing the annotations separately as well as retrieving the annotations and displaying them with the document images.

1) Has anyone implemented this functionality?  If so, can you please give a high level description of the solution?
2) If you have not implemented this, are the any contributors or engineers that can give a high level recommendation of a solution/architecture?

Thanks.

[bmarbury]

Should I post this on a different board topic?

[mrogers]

This is what properties are for.   You can store your "annotations" in a property.    

What you would want to do is create a content model to contain your tiff image and whatever properties are relevant to your buisness process.

[bmarbury]

This is what properties are for.   You can store your "annotations" in a property.    

What you would want to do is create a content model to contain your tiff image and whatever properties are relevant to your buisness process.

Thank you for the reply.

There appears to be multiple ways to design the content model to store annotations.  However, that is not exactly what I was looking for.

Perhaps my wording did not accurately portray what I am looking for, so I will try to simplify with a question and followup explanation.

Has anyone implemented an inline image viewer/editor for the web client that will allow the user to annotate image content with highlighting, redaction, drawing, text, etc. and save the annotations to the repository separate from the image (as property, content, etc.)?  If so, what was the solution used?  If not, what would the recommended approach be?

Our current document management system includes a viewer that allows images to be annotated inline without having to check the document out and back in.  In addition, it saves the annotations as separate content, leaving the original image intact, and automatically loads the annotations when the image is reloaded into the viewer.

The out of the box Alfresco web client does not appear to provide an image viewer/editor.  It launches image content in whatever viewer/editor is associated with the image type on the client side.

There are many viewers that could be used but I have yet to find one that is "Alfresco aware".  We might be able to use the CIFS or Webdav features but I would like to hide from the user the fact that the annotations are stored separately so they don't have to be loaded or saved separately.

I'm thinking that this might require developing a plugin or applet, possibly using a vendor sdk and custom coding the Alfresco integration.

[ajn1130]

Yes here is a product out that embeds directly into alfresco and requires only 7 lines of code to implement and it works across many formats. Here is the link.
http://www.daeja.com/entry/annland.asp?gclid=CIyc3KrcpZoCFRYiagodLwLJ-A

[vijapandey]

hi i want to edit images in alfresco ,by  image editors Can any one provide solutions

Regards
Vijay

[christopheradam]

Tiff annotation on website client is a little more complicate than <a href="http://www.rasteredge.com/how-to/vb-net-imaging/tiff-annotating/">tiff annotation</a> on windows application, which allows to easily and quickly create and add more than ten kinds of annotation objects on a certian tiff page with at the defined position.

[shripatel]

It is a year old thread, but our requirement is exactly same, is there any addon available for alfresco 5.0 d community version to handle image/pdf/office document annotations ?