How to export annotation of image manual without image string base64

[ines (Ines Montani)]

Hi! What you get out at the end is always what you load in (which is kind of a core principle so you don't lose any data). If you don't want the images to be encoded, you can load in the image URLs from a JSONL file instead of the image directory.

I've posted an example of this in this thread the other day:

@ines

If your images are large and you can't easily change that, one solution would be to not rely on encoding the entire image as as string and instead load the images via URLs (and maybe keep an additional reference to the image ID so you can always relate the annotations back). Your input data could then be a JSONL file and you could specify --loader jsonl in image.manual . For example:

{"image": "https://example.com/image1.jpg", "id": 123}
{"image": "https://example.com/image2.jpg", "id": 456}

One thing to note: Using local file paths for the images isn't going to work, since modern browsers typically block those for security reasons (see here for details ). So you'd either have to start a simple local server to host the directory of images, or upload them somewhere (like an S3 bucket).