Standalone server installation and integration

The A.nnotate server is now available for installation on your own servers. Installing A.nnotate on your own servers has the following advantages:

• You have complete control of where your documents are stored
• You can keep confidential documents on your intranet and add additional access controls
• The number of documents is limited only by hard disk space
• Better performance for uploading and viewing documents
• Ability to integrate with existing document management or content management systems

If you do not wish to install a server yourself, you can use our hosted service where you can create a private individual or group account for annotating documents on our servers. We can also set up and maintain dedicated A.nnotate servers for your company if you have particularly high volumes of documents or have additional security requirements.

Server requirements

The current version of the A.nnotate server runs on a Linux server with Apache and PHP 5. To install it, you will need root access to your server and familiarity with a linux command line. Once installed, access and use of the system is as easy as using the online service at A.nnotate.com. You can install the A.nnotate system on a server on your intranet (behind your company firewall) or on a dedicated web server.

Licensing

Per-server licencing is based on the number of users able to upload documents to your server:

All prices exclude sales taxes. The price quoted includes the first year's support and upgrades. After that support/upgrades are available at 25% of initial purchase price per year. Trial and developer licenses are available for testing purposes. Please contact us for details or if you need a quote for more users or servers.

Educational version The A.nnotate server is available for local installation by universities, colleges and schools at a substantial discount. more on educational discounts

Installation guide

The A.nnotate server installation guide includes technical instructions for installing the A.nnotate server on your machine with support for annotating PDF documents and snapshots of web pages. The A.nnotate server installation guide (Part 2) has instructions for installing the optional modules to support uploading Word and other office formats, displaying upload progress bars, and creating thumbnails of web pages.

Integration with existing systems

See the A.nnotate API guide for details of integrating A.nnotate with your existing content management, workflow or authentication systems.

Contact us to purchase a license or discuss your requirements

Please get in touch to discuss your requirements for A.nnotate or to obtain a trial license for testing purposes.