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Looks like I'll have to build my own utility to get them out and then I can use IM to burn them in. Many thanks for looking into this for me.

Cheers
Rob

That's pretty much where I got to. I was hoping that ImageMagick might have some capability to read this stuff and then burn it back in as part of the image but doesn't sound like it and I'll need to look into other options.

Thanks for the suggestion, snibgo. I'm new to this forum so not sure whether this will work. Here is a link to the TIFF. I've had to redact quite a bit. TIFF with annotations Here's a link to a screen shot of the image with the annotations in a supported viewer. The annotations are highlighted in ...

So far I have managed to get it to extract the tag but, unfortunately, it only extracts it as binary data. I can see the text in there but no idea how to get other data such as font details and positioning.

Thanks, I'll look into it. Hadn't considered going the EXIF route

Hi Kent,

It's been a few years now but I was wondering whether you ever got anything working as I now need to do a similar thing, extract annotations from TIFF files or burn them into the image.

Thanks
Rob