Overview of Prizm Annotation Server

Prizm Annotation Server is the gateway for your web application to support annotations for web-based images and has two primary responsibilities:

Communicating with the Prizm Viewer application.
Storing and retrieving annotation data.

Source Code Samples

Prizm Annotation Server includes two source code samples:

ASP.NET framework which is referenced in this help file as PrizmAnnotServer namespace
JSP framework

These working samples demonstrate how an annotation server can be created that saves annotations using either a file system, or an ODBC database. These samples do not modify the image files when storing annotations. It would be possible for an annotation server to modify the images to support features such as redaction, retrieving annotations from within an image file (embedded annotations), or storing annotations within the image files.

See the Annotation Server Source Code Overview topic and the PrizmAnnotServer reference for detailed information regarding the sample coding and design.

Prizm Annotation Server v9 or later does not support previous versions of Prizm Viewer or previous Prizm Viewer annotations, though it could be modified to support either.

Annotations

For detailed information regarding supported annotations, refer to the Accusoft.PrizmViewer10.Admin.chm and Accusoft.PrizmViewer10.User.chm Help files.