This is an imported and polished version of eHOST: The Extensible Human Oracle Suite of Tools an open source annotation tool.
Compiled jars can be downloaded from the Releases
A few highglighted updates:
- Rearrange the code under maven framework
- Allows to delete annotation with single press "Delete" key
- Allows hot key navigation among documents (Ctrl+PageUp, Ctrl+PageDown)
- Sort projects on names
- Sort files on names
- Allows to export annotations to excel (Developed by Chris Leng)
- Sync the highlighter of file navigation panel when selecting file from other places (e.g. dropdown list)
- Save last view file within each project, so that annotators can be easily resumed to that file when open a project next time.
- Allows remote control through RESTful API.
- Optimize GUI rendering. Previous version has several redundant refreshing and rendering.
To enable RESTful server for outside app controls:
Add following to the eHOST.sys file before running eHOST:
[RESTFUL_SERVER]
true
To check the server status: http://127.0.0.1:8009/status
To shutdown the server from outside: http://127.0.0.1:8009/shutdown
To navigate to a project: http://127.0.0.1:8009/ehost/xxx
- xxx is the project directory name (not absolute path)
To navigate to a project and display a specific file: http://127.0.0.1:8009/ehost/xxx/yyy
- xxx is the project directory name (not absolute path)
- yyy is the file name or partial file name (if multiple file matched, only first one will be displayed)
You can change the server port by editing the application.properties file.
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