The Annotation ribbon in the Image View window contains buttons that you can use to add annotations, notes, and other objects, such as highlighting marks and arrows, to your PDF and image items.
On PDF files, annotations are editable, meaning that you can reposition, change, or remove them — or edit textual content — whenever you want.
On other types of image items, such as JPEG and Windows Bitmap files, annotations become a permanent part of the image when you save the item.
For item types, such as text items, that cannot accept annotations, PaperPort automatically disables the annotation buttons.
Notes
PDF files created or edited outside of PaperPort can contain annotations types that are not supported by PaperPort. Although PaperPort displays these annotation types as part of the PDF item, such annotations cannot be repositioned, modified, or removed.
PaperPort Image (MAX) files cannot accept annotations in PaperPort 14, however annotations placed by previous versions of the product remain visible, but cannot be modified. The MAX to PDF converter allows these annotations to be transferred to PDF files, where they are editable.
Tips
To use PaperPort’s annotation buttons on an item for which the buttons are not available, use Duplicate as PDF Item to create a PDF file.
PDF files of all flavors are better annotated in PDF Viewer Plus or Power PDF, where the annotation tools are customized for use with PDF files. The professional product offers a wider range of tools, and also allows the real PDF content (text or objects) to be edited.
Image editing buttons work only with image items. This means all buttons will be disabled when you view a text document in the Image View window.
Note also that certain image editing operations are valid only for particular item types. To indicate that an operation is not available, PaperPort automatically disables the appropriate button on the SET Tools command groups.
Operations that are available only for specific item types include:
Remove Red Eye — works only with color images.
Remove Stray Dots — works only with black-and-white image items.
Improve Lines — works only with black-and-white image items.
Straighten an image — straightening lines of text in a black-and-white image file will yield better OCR results.
Despeckle — cleans black-and-white images using a chosen despeckling type.