Annotate Documents in C#

.NET Cloud SDK to communicate with REST APIs and build annotation tools for C# .NET applications.

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GroupDocs.Annotation Cloud REST API for .NET allows you to programmatically work with business document annotation operations and develop tools using C# and other .NET technologies. The tools that you develop using our annotation SDK for .NET APIs, enable your end-users to annotate files of supported file formats, such as PDF, Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Images and various other formats. Apply redactions, watermark overlays, sticky notes, pointers and text markups etc. The open-source SDK works as a wrapper for cross-platform .NET REST APIs. Apply annotations as drawings or text markups.

How to Sign a document using GroupDocs.Annotation Cloud SDK for .NET

  • Create an instance of Configuration using available Client Id and Client Secret.
  • Create an instance of AnnotateApi using instance of Configuration.
  • Create an instance of AnnotationInfo and set options for type and position of the desired annotation.
  • Create an instance of FileInfo and set paths to input and output files.
  • Create an instance of AnnotateOptions with instances of AnnotationInfo and FileInfo.
  • Use AnnotateApi.Annotate to annotate your document.

Frequently Asked Questions

I want to create my own .NET application to annotate documents?

Check out GroupDocs.Annotation Cloud SDK for .NET at GitHub if you are looking for the source code to annotate file in the Cloud.

Can I try GroupDocs.Annotation REST APIs on Android for free?

You can try GroupDocs.Annotation Low-Code .NET APIs without any limitations.

I do not want to upload my confidential files anywhere for annotations? What are my options?

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.

Advanced Document Annotation REST API Features

Add/remove graphic annotations & text markups

Retrieve document information such as metadata

Fetch annotation data for supported file formats

Import/export annotation list of the document

Render annotated document to PDF

Save resultant annotated document to storage & fetch its link

Support for multiple file formats & Cross-platform compatibility

Apply text redaction to the slide’s content

Apply annotations to Header/Footer area in Microsoft Word documents

Work with Document Annotations

GroupDocs.Annotation Cloud SDK for .NET allows you to utilize all the features of the GroupDocs.Annotation REST API which provides a number of ways to deal with the annotations. It not only allows retrieving annotations from documents but also adds (exports) annotation to a document and retrieves the resultant document as a stream. The below-mentioned example shows how easy is to import annotation using the SDK for .NET:

Import document annotations - C#

  // Get your AppSID and AppKey at https://dashboard.groupdocs.cloud (free registration is required).
  var configuration = new Configuration(AppSID, AppKey);
  var apiInstance = new AnnotateApi(configuration);

  // Set request.
  var request = new GetImportRequest()
  {
      filePath = "docs/document.docx"
  };

  var response = apiInstance.GetImport(request);

Robust Set of Annotation Tools

In GroupDocs.Annotation Cloud SDK for .NET, support for two primary annotation types is available. Each annotation type then further has numerous sub-types. The two primary types are; drawing based annotations and text-based annotations or markups. Text-based annotations are used to add comments to text selections, hide confidential text by redaction, apply underlines or strikethroughs to mark text, and stick notes to rich text. Whereas, graphical annotations are used to highlight area with rectangular shape and add notes to it, hide classified image or text, pick particular point within document and apply notes to it, drop arrow to an object to point towards it, draw lines and shapes, apply text-based watermarks, and distance based annotations.

Easy Integration

Integration of GroupDocs.Annotation Cloud SDK in to your C# or other .NET based applications is pretty easy and straight-forward. Simply create an account at GroupDocs.Cloud and get the App SID & App Key and you are good to go.

Easy Customization

Our Annotation SDK for .NET is open-source, and has an MIT license. GroupDocs.Annotation Cloud SDK is reliable, scalable and fully tested toolkit. So you can use it and even customize it as per your requirements free of charge.

Interactive API Explorer

Check our annotation API right now in your browser using Swagger based API explorer that lists all the features of GroupDocs.Annotation Cloud API for .NET. Provide your desired parameters to any feature and Try it out. You can visit our API Explorer now.

Support and Learning Resources

GroupDocs.Annotation Cloud also offers individual document rendering SDKs for other popular languages as listed below:

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