# Text

The text labeling tool allows you to ask labelers open-ended questions.

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The Text tools are supported across the Audio, Image, Video, DICOM, Medical, PDF, Text, LLM, and Markdown labeling editors.
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### How to add a Text tool to your project <a href="#how-to-add-a-text-tool-to-your-project" id="how-to-add-a-text-tool-to-your-project"></a>

From the project’s *Settings* tab, enter the *Label Set* section.

Click on *Add Category*. From the list that appears, click on *Text*.

A new row will appear named *Text*. Click on it to expand it.

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### Text Tool Options

**Schema ID**: The unique ID assigned to the tool.

**Title**: The name of your labeling tool.

**Required**: If you enable this toggle, labelers will be required to answer this field before saving.

**Regex Validation**: If you enter a regular expression in this field (without the initial and final `\` slashes), labelers' answers to this field will have to match the regex being input before saving.

**Rich Text Editor**: If enabled, the user will not see a plain text field, they will instead see a rich text editor where they can make text bold, italic, add images, and more. This is then stored and served in the export as HTML.

**KaTeX Preview**: If enabled, you may have annotators see a live preview of KaTeX, a mathematical subset of LaTeX:

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**Frame-specific**: If you enable this toggle, the answer to this classification will only be valid for one frame (in videos and multi-frame images/DICOMs) instead of the whole asset.

**Multiple**: If enabled, annotators can answer this classification multiple times.

Once you have selected your options, click on *Save* at the bottom to save your changes.
