Create New Annotations

Prior to annotating, make sure that NotateXpress™ has a valid associated ImagXpress® Client, and that a Layer has been created programmatically, or retrieved from annotation file.

New annotations are created using annotation templates. An annotation template enables the application to create multiple annotations with similar properties, if desired. This is accomplished as follows:

The ElementCreate method is called to create a new annotation template.
The "Element" methods are used to set the attributes of the annotation template.
A current layer to annotate is specified by setting the Layer property.
The ElementAppend method is called to place a new annotation on the current layer. The new annotation has all the attributes that were defined for the annotation template.
The annotation template can be used and modified to create other annotations.
When the annotation template is no longer needed, it must be destroyed (ElementDestroy) to free the element handle.

Bates Stamping with NotateXpress

Bates Stamping is used in the legal and business fields to sequentially number or date/time mark images or documents as they are scanned or processed.

Bates Stamping can be used to mark and identify images with copyrights by putting a company name, logo and/or legal copyright on them. This process provides identification, protection, and auto-increment numbering of the images.

Manual Bates Stamping used a stamp that incremented a sequential number each time it was pressed down on a document. Accusoft suggests using a NotateXpress stamp to automate this function. The developer needs to create a stamptool at a specific location on the document then set the text field with an appropriate string. Branding the stamp onto the document is considered optional.