| Measures | |
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| Calibration assistant | with a measuring tool | declarative |
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| Measures proposed | simple and segmented length, angle, polygon, | idem + segment measurements, freehand lines, |
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| perimeter, area | multipoint tool |
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| Character state | linked to the data model (via Xper3) | non |
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| Recording the data | in a CSV exportable table with other annotations | in a CSV recordable table |
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| on the specimen | |
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| Visualization of measurements | by persistent plotting of all measurements made | current measure only |
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| Descriptive data model | association of the measurement with a model | no |
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| character | |
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| Statistical parameters during | mean and standard deviation per character of the | no |
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| measurement | model | |
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| Mathematical image processing | no | yes |
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| Kind of images | |
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| Formats | jpg, exif | tiff, gif, jpg, png, dicom, bmp, pmg, fis |
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| Dimensions | 2D | 2D-5D |
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| Images management | |
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| Multi-image management | projects and tabs | stacks |
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| Images library | library with folders | OS directories |
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| Image set selection | filtrage by tags into Annotate-On library | add to stacks |
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| Tags on images | yes | no |
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| Image metadata | editable model, exif | exif, fixed model |
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| Image display | one window for all the images (carousel) | multi-window, one window per image |
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| Zoom | yes | yes |
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| Image treatments | |
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| no | yes |
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| Areas of interest | |
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| ROI | core areas of interest (points, rectangles and poly- | wide variety of possible ROIs for image processing |
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| gons) to mark or cut out areas for external software and mathematical analysis |
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| Management by tags | |
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| Tags on annotations | yes | no |
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| Tags on images | yes | no |
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| Managing the researcher’s work |
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| Projects management | yes (an Annotate-On project includes a library, | not relevant |
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| several models and a keyword set) | |
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| Automation | no | yes |
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| Metadata standard | |
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| Darwin Core | yes | no |
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| Dublin Core | yes | no |
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| Exif | yes | yes |
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| Specimen description | |
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| Characters | yes | no |
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| Model (as a set of characters) | yes | no |
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| Data export | |
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| CSV | CSV |
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| Links with Xper3 | yes | no |
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