Annotorious Tilted Box Plugin

This plugin for Annotorious adds a new selection tool: the Tilted Box.

The Tilted Box allows you to quickly draw a rectangle in an arbitrary rotation. This can be especially useful for selecting text that appears in photographs or digitized map images.

!!! BETA !!! the current version support creating annotations only. You can not (yet) edit existing shapes.

Install

Include the plugin directly via the CDN:

<!-- Annotorious -->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@recogito/annotorious@latest/dist/annotorious.min.css">
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@recogito/annotorious@latest/dist/annotorious.min.js"></script>

<!-- Tilted box plugin -->
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@recogito/annotorious-tilted-box@latest/dist/annotorious-tilted-box.min.js"></script>

Or if you are using npm:

$ npm install @recogito/annotorious-tilted-box

Instantiate Annotorious the normal way, and then register the plugin:

var anno = Annotorious.init({
  image: 'my-image'
});

// Init the plugin
Annotorious.TiltedBox(anno);

// Annotorious now has an additional drawing 
// tool - set it as the active tool
anno.setDrawingTool('annotorious-tilted-box');

Questions? Feedack? Feature requests? Join the Annotorious chat on Gitter.

License

BSD-3 Clause (= feel free to use this code in whatever way you wish. But keep the attribution/license file, and if this code breaks something, don't complain to us :-)