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Photo annotation and markup

Photo annotation, on site.
Point at the problem, don't describe it.

Mark up any site photograph on the phone the moment you take it. Draw on it, label it, drop a company sticker, measure it on the image and record a spoken note — all saved against the space, product or form field the photo belongs to.

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01 · Mark it on siteAnnotate the photo while you are still standing in front of it.
02 · Five tools, one canvasDraw, text, stickers, measurements and voice on the same image.
03 · Straight into the reportAnnotated photos export exactly as marked, no reassembly.
Marking up a site photo in SiteSurvey — drawing a circle round a defect, typing the label 'Door is sticking', measuring the door on the image and recording a spoken note that transcribes itself

Draw, text, stickers, measure, voice

Everything you need to make a photo explain itself.

A photograph on its own rarely shows what the surveyor saw. The markup editor puts every tool on the image so the detail, its size and its meaning are recorded together — and the original capture is always kept alongside.

Capability 01

On-image measurements

Draw a line between two points on the photograph and key the real value in. A door height, a clearance gap or a wall run is recorded visually instead of buried in a note.

Capability 02

Text labels and callouts

Type the callout, tap Place and drop it anywhere on the image. Every defect gets called out in plain words on the evidence itself.

Capability 03

Freehand draw

Circle the crack, trace the cable run or scribble the route by hand. Pick the colour and stroke weight that stands out against the photograph.

Capability 04

Reusable company stickers

Upload your own symbols once in Settings and the whole team can drop them onto photos — hazard marks, equipment icons and status badges, consistent across every survey.

Capability 05

Voice notes, transcribed

Speak the detail that is quicker said than written. The waveform records on the phone, plays back in place, and the note is written out underneath the photo as text you can read at a glance.

Capability 06

Filed in context, original kept

The marked-up photo stays attached to the space, product or form field it was captured against — and the untouched original is preserved beside the annotated copy.

Every tool, on one photo

Watch each tool do its job.

One photograph of a sticking door, marked up on site. Each tool adds a different kind of detail to the same image — and the finished annotation carries all of them into the report.

Drawing a freehand circle round a defect on a site photo in SiteSurvey, with the colour and stroke picker along the bottom

Step 01

Draw on it

Circle the defect by hand. Pick the colour and stroke weight that stands out against the photograph.

Typing the label 'Door is sticking' and placing it onto a site photo in SiteSurvey

Step 02

Label it in words

Type the callout, tap Place, and drop it where it belongs — so the marked-up area says what it is.

Drawing a measurement line down a door on a site photo in SiteSurvey and keying in the value on a numeric keypad

Step 03

Measure on the image

Draw the line between two points and key in the real value. It stays written on the photo.

Recording a spoken note against an annotated site photo in SiteSurvey — the waveform builds and the words appear as written text beneath the photo

Step 04

Say the rest

Record a spoken note and it is written out as text under the photo. Play it back, or clear it and start again.

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Office and field, connected

The markup is the note.

Annotating on site removes the write-up that normally happens later — no cropping images into a document, no drawing arrows in another tool, no typing a paragraph to describe what a red circle would have said. The photo arrives in the office already explained, filed against the right space, and ready to print.

Draw, text, stickers, measurements and voice on the same image

Saved against the space, product or form field — never loose in a camera roll

Exports into the PDF report and shared links exactly as marked

Your symbols, everyone's photos

Build the sticker library once.

Stickers are your own images, uploaded in Settings and sorted into categories. Add the equipment, hazard marks and status badges your team actually uses, and everyone can drop them straight onto a photograph — so the same symbol means the same thing on every survey.

Placing a screen sticker onto a site photo in SiteSurvey and dragging it out to size
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Adding a sticker to the company library in SiteSurvey Settings — uploading the image and filing it under a category

Upload your own images once, in Settings

Sort them into categories your team recognises

Place and resize them on any photo, on any survey

Frequently asked questions

Questions, answered.

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What is photo annotation software?+

Photo annotation software lets you mark up a photograph so the image itself carries the explanation — drawings over the detail, text labels naming it, symbols, on-image measurements and notes. On site it replaces the round trip of taking a photo, downloading it and describing it in a separate document: in SiteSurvey the markup happens on the phone at the moment of capture, and the annotated photo files itself against the project record.

How do you annotate a site photo?+

Take or select a photo inside a survey, then tap to open the markup editor. A tool rail along the bottom gives you Draw, Text, Sticker, Measure and Voice. Saving keeps both the marked-up photo and the original, attached to the space, product or form field the photo was captured against.

Can you add measurements to a site photograph?+

Yes. Choose Measure, draw a line between two points on the image and key in the real value, which is written alongside the line. A door height, a wall run or a clearance gap is recorded visually rather than described in a note. Dimensions stay on the annotated copy of the photo and appear in the exported report.

Can you record a voice note on a photo?+

Yes. The Voice tool records a spoken note against the image, showing the waveform as you speak, and writes the note out as text beneath the photo. The recording plays back in place and can be cleared and retaken before the annotation is finished — useful for the detail that is quicker said than written while you are still on site.

What are stickers and where do they come from?+

Stickers are reusable images your company uploads once in Settings, sorted into your own categories — equipment symbols, hazard marks, status badges or any icon you use. Anyone in the team can drop one onto a photograph and drag it to size, so the same visual language is used across every survey instead of each surveyor drawing their own symbols.

Does photo annotation work offline?+

Yes. The markup editor runs entirely on the device, so photos can be annotated in basements, plant rooms and remote sites with no signal. Annotated images sync to the project automatically when connectivity returns.

Is the original photograph kept after annotation?+

Yes. Annotation never destroys the source image — the original capture is retained alongside the marked-up version, so evidence can still be reviewed unedited if it is ever questioned.

Do annotated photos appear in the exported report?+

Yes. Annotated images flow straight into the PDF report and any shared link, sitting in the section or form field they were captured against. Drawings, labels, dimensions and stickers all render in the export with no reassembly in another tool.

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Mark up your next site photo.