Annotations are labels attached to parts of an image or document. On Footnote you can add annotations about People, Places, Dates or Text.

How to create an annotation

With your image In the Viewer, click the "Annotate" button in the toolbar.
Select the area by dragging the handles on the selection box and choose type of annotation (Person, Place, Date or Text) you are adding.
Enter what you see and click "Save"

Benefits of Annotations

Make images more findable. Your annotations make documents and images much more findable. Every annotation contributed is searchable within seconds. This makes your discoveries useful to everyone.
Contribute to History. You, in a sense, become part of history. Imagine being the first to annotate a document signed by George Washington more than 200 years ago. Every other person who then finds that piece of history will have you to thank.
Make your uploads more popular. The more you annotate the more likely it is that people with similar interests and content to share will find you.
Let people find you. Your annotations link to your Profile making it easy for interested Members to contact you.
Help decipher handwriting. Annotations provide a great way to make difficult to read handwriting readable by all.

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