ImageGear provides the New Annotation API: ArtX and the Annotation API: ART components for working with annotations.

You can only attach one ART component. ART cannot be attached when ArtX Component is already attached, and vice-versa.

ImageGear ArtX Component

Using the ArtX Component, you can annotate any image that your application loads into ImageGear. The annotations are called "ArtX marks", or "marks" for short. The ImageGear ArtX Component consists of the mark objects as well as the objects for handling these marks. See New Annotation API: ArtX for information about using annotations.

ImageGear ART Component

The ImageGear ART component includes low-level functions for fine-tune image annotating and high-level functions for the most typical operations. ART creates annotations on a layer that sits above the image or document that is to be annotated. The original image and the annotations can be stored separately or merged together permanently. See Annotation API: ART for information about using the ART Component.

ImageGear ART Component is provided in for backward compatibility with previous versions of ImageGear (prior to v15). We recommend that you use the new ImageGear ArtX Component API for new development.