Annotate Documents in Java with REST API
RESTful API to build online document & image annotation tools with support for text & image based annotation options. Let’s annotate!
RESTful API to build online document & image annotation tools with support for text & image based annotation options. Let’s annotate!
GroupDocs.Annotation Cloud SDK for Java is a handy toolkit for developing business document annotator applications in Java. The solution allows applying annotations, sticky notes, watermark overlays, redactions, text replacements and markups to documents, presentations, emails, spreadsheets, PDF, images other file formats. Annotation SDK works as a wrapper for the Java RESTful APIs and makes application cross-platform compatible. Our Annotation API also works with all popular 3rd party cloud storage solutions.
An overview of the features supported by our document annotation API for Java.
GroupDocs.Annotation Cloud supports a number of document formats including almost all common business document and image file formats.
GroupDocs.Annotation set of SDK REST APIs is not dependent on your local operating system or database. We offer our SDK APIs in numerous programming languages and with frequent new additions.
GroupDocs.AnnotationConfiguration using available Client Id and Client Secret.AnnotateApi using instance of Configuration.AnnotationInfo and set options for type and position of the desired annotation.FileInfo and set paths to input and output files.AnnotateOptions with instances of AnnotationInfo and FileInfo.AnnotateApi.annotate to annotate your document.Check out GroupDocs.Annotation Cloud SDK for Java at GitHub if you are looking for the source code to annotate file in the Cloud.
You can try GroupDocs.Annotation Low-Code Java APIs without any limitations.
GroupDocs.Annotation Cloud is also available as Docker image which can be used to self-host the service. Or you may build your own Java services using GroupDocs.Annotation High-code APIs which currently drive our REST APIs.
GroupDocs.Annotation Cloud API provides a number of ways to deal with annotations. It not only allows retrieving annotations from documents, but also adds annotation to a document and retrieves the resultant document as stream. Following code snippet shows how you can quickly get the PDF version of any document.
// Get your AppSID and AppKey at https://dashboard.groupdocs.cloud (free registration is required).
Configuration configuration = new Configuration(appSID, appKey);
AnnotateApi apiInstance = new AnnotateApi(configuration);
// Create request object.
GetPdfRequest request = new GetPdfRequest();
request.setFilePath("docs"+ File.separator +"document.docx");
// Executing api method.
File response = apiInstance.getPdf(request);
GroupDocs.Annotation Cloud SDK for Java REST API, allows you to make use of various types of annotations. The primary types are; graphical annotation and text-based annotations. Text-based markups can be done thorugh adding text comments to selection, text redaction is supported to hide classified text. You can also highlight text with markups such as underlines and strikethroughs. Sticky notes can be added to rich text. Graphical annotation can be applied in the form of, adding notes to area highlighted with rectangle (Area Annotation), hide classified part of text or image (Area Redaction), apply notes to a specific point within the document (Point Annotation), arrows dropped to an object (Pointer/Arrow), drawing freehand shapes and lines (Polyline), add text-based watermark overlay (Watermark), and distance measurement between any two objects in the document (Distance Annotation).
To integrate GroupDocs.Annotation Cloud SDK into your Java applications, just create an account at GroupDocs.Cloud to get App SID & App Key. No installation is required.
GroupDocs.Annotation Cloud SDK for Java is open source and has an MIT license. Use it, and even customize it for no charges. Moreover, it is tested and out of the box running for a quick and reliable integration.
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