PDF Labeling Editor

Overview of the PDF Labeling Editor in Ango Hub

Ango Hub provides a labeling editor with which PDF files can be annotated.

This article will exclusively go over Ango Hub’s PDF labeling interface. Features common to all labeling editors (audio, image, PDF, and text) are instead explained here.

Overview of the PDF Labeling Editor in Ango Hub

PDF Interface Elements

Navigation buttons

The arrows allow you to move forwards and backward between pages. You can also directly type in the page number and press Enter to navigate to that page.

Scrolling with the mouse wheel will also navigate between pages in the asset.

With the + and - zoom buttons you can adjust the PDF's zoom level. resets the zoom level and jumps you to the bottom-most annotation in the PDF:

How to Annotate PDFs

From the Tools panel on the left sidebar, select a PDF labeling tool, marked with an A enclosed in a square. (If none are present, only answer the questions in the Questions panel.)

Area

With the PDF tool selected, click and drag where you’d like the area to be placed.

After creating the area and selecting by clicking on it, you can change its size by dragging it from its sides and corners. You can drag the entire area by dragging it with the mouse cursor.

You can perform OCR on the contents of the box by selecting it by clicking it, then right-clicking on the box and pressing the OCR button.

After having performed OCR, you'll be shown how confident Hub is that the OCR it output is correct:

Nested Questions and Classifications

If the labels have nested questions, after selecting a label by clicking on it, right-click on a label and click on the menu item that appears to see and answer the nested questions.

If classification questions are present, you may answer them from the Questions panel on the left sidebar.

Quick Annotation Navigation

Since PDFs can be long, manually navigating to where each label was placed can take time.

It is possible to directly "jump" to the location of each label by keeping Ctrl pressed and hovering over the label from the Objects section in the left sidebar. The editor will automatically navigate to the page where the label is, and the label selected will be highlighted.

Keyboard Shortcuts

A full list of keyboard shortcuts is available by clicking on the Keyboard button on the right side of the top bar:

Further reading

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