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Photo Annotator

A bare photo of a wall proves nothing. Show them the crack.

Hand a homeowner a plain picture of their foundation and they see a gray wall. Circle the stair-step crack, arrow the bowed section, drop a note on the water line, and now they see exactly what you see. Photo Annotator lets your techs mark up job and inspection photos right in the app, so the evidence does the talking before you ever quote a price.
See annotation in a demo
How it works
Mark it up on the phone. Original photo kept. Annotated copy saved to the job.
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ANNOTATED Stair-step crack Pier 4 location
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The photo nobody can read

Your tech knows what the photo shows. The homeowner, the office, and the adjuster do not.

A technician crawls under a house, sees the problem in an instant, and snaps twelve photos. To him, photo seven clearly shows the beam that has dropped and the pier that needs to go in. To everyone who was not down there, photo seven is a dim shot of some wood and some dirt.

So the knowledge lives in the tech’s head, and it leaks out one phone call at a time. The homeowner squints at the picture and asks “which crack?” The estimator guesses at scope from a photo he cannot interpret. Six months later an insurance adjuster looks at the same shot and cannot tell what was wrong or what got fixed.

Teams patch this the clumsy way. They screenshot into a separate markup app, save it to their camera roll, then try to remember which job it belonged to and text it back in. Photos drift out of the system, the annotated version and the original get mixed up, and the one marked-up shot that would have sold the job is sitting on somebody’s personal phone.

What a marked-up photo does

A red circle around the crack and an arrow to the pier turns a confusing image into a clear one. The homeowner understands the repair and trusts the recommendation. The estimator scopes it right. The adjuster sees documented damage. Same photo, but now it carries the tech’s expertise with it instead of leaving it in the crawlspace.
How it works

Open the photo, mark it up, save it to the job. That is the whole thing.

Photo Annotator lives inside OblyssPro, right in the photo gallery on the job. There is no separate app to download, no export and re-import, and no way for the marked-up shot to wander off onto a personal phone.
See annotation in a demo

Right from the photo you are already looking at

Tap any photo in the job or inspection gallery to open it, then choose Annotate. The editor opens on that image with the tools a foundation tech actually needs: circle the crack, arrow the pier location, draw the crawlspace path the water is taking, and drop a text note where a number matters. It is built on the same drawing engine as the site sketch tool, so it feels familiar and it works with a fingertip.
  • Opens from the photo lightbox, so you mark up the shot you are already viewing.
  • Circle, arrow, draw, and label cracks, pier locations, and water intrusion points.
  • No separate markup app and no exporting to the camera roll and back. Photo gallery · annotate Open photo in gallery Tap Choose Annotate Editor opens
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The original is never touched

When you save, the marked-up image is stored as a separate annotated copy, and the original photo stays exactly as the camera took it. That matters more than it sounds. If a claim or a dispute ever comes up, you have the untouched original alongside the version your tech annotated, and nobody can argue you drew on the evidence. The annotated copies carry an Annotated label, and you can filter the gallery to show only the marked-up shots when you are building a report or walking a homeowner through the findings.
  • Original preserved, sannotated version saved alongside it.
  • Annotated label on every marked-up copy so the two are never confused.
  • Filter the gallery to show only annotated photos when you build a report.
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Filter: Annotated only 6 photos
In the field, on the tech's phone

Marked up the moment the photo is taken, not that night at the office.

Annotation runs on the technician mobile app, the same one your crews already use to see their jobs and check off work orders. It installs from the browser with Add to Home Screen, so there is no app store download and no separate login. A tech takes the photo, circles the problem while he is still standing in front of it, and the marked-up copy is on the job before he climbs back out of the crawlspace.

That is the difference between documentation that happens and documentation that is supposed to happen. When marking up a photo takes ten seconds on the phone in your hand, techs actually do it. When it means screenshotting into another app back at the shop, they do not, and the detail is lost by then anyway. When photos are synced to CompanyCam, your field images keep flowing to the tools your crew already relies on.

Technicians

Circle the crack and arrow the pier on site, right after the shot, straight from the field app.

Inspectors

Mark up inspection photos so the report shows findings, not just a folder of raw images.

The office

Pull annotated photos for a homeowner walkthrough, a proposal, or an insurance claim package.

Where a marked-up photo earns its keep

The same annotation sells the job, then defends it years later.

A technician crawls under a house, sees the problem in an instant, and snaps twelve photos. To him, photo seven clearly shows the beam that has dropped and the pier that needs to go in. To everyone who was not down there, photo seven is a dim shot of some wood and some dirt.

So the knowledge lives in the tech’s head, and it leaks out one phone call at a time. The homeowner squints at the picture and asks “which crack?” The estimator guesses at scope from a photo he cannot interpret. Six months later an insurance adjuster looks at the same shot and cannot tell what was wrong or what got fixed.

Teams patch this the clumsy way. They screenshot into a separate markup app, save it to their camera roll, then try to remember which job it belonged to and text it back in. Photos drift out of the system, the annotated version and the original get mixed up, and the one marked-up shot that would have sold the job is sitting on somebody’s personal phone.

Part of one connected record

Annotated photos do not live in a silo. They sit on the job next to the inspection report, the estimate, the signed contract, and the warranty, so anyone with access to the job can pull them without hunting through a phone. That is the whole idea behind OblyssPro: the field and the office working off the same record.
The questions techs and owners ask

Frequently asked questions

Does annotating a photo change or overwrite the original?
No. The original photo is preserved exactly as it was taken, and the marked-up version is saved as a separate annotated copy alongside it. If a dispute or a claim ever comes up, you have both: the untouched original and the annotated version, so nobody can say you drew on the evidence.
No. Annotation is built into OblyssPro. You open a photo in the job or inspection gallery, choose Annotate, and the editor opens on that image. There is no screenshotting into another app, no export to your camera roll, and no re-importing the marked-up shot back into the job.
Yes. Photo Annotator works on the technician mobile app, which installs from the browser with Add to Home Screen. A tech can mark up a photo on the phone the moment it is taken, so the crack gets circled while he is still standing in front of it instead of hours later at the shop.
The things a foundation job calls for: circle a stair-step crack, arrow a pier location, draw the path water is taking through a crawlspace, and add a text note where a measurement or a callout matters. It runs on the same drawing engine as the site sketch tool, so it is quick to learn and works with a fingertip.
Every annotated copy carries an Annotated label, and the photo gallery has a filter to show only annotated photos. When you are building a report, assembling a proposal, or pulling together an insurance claim package, you can jump straight to the marked-up shots instead of scrolling through every raw image on the job.
On the job record, in the same gallery as the rest of the job and inspection photos, next to the estimate, contract, and warranty. Anyone on the team with access to the job can pull them in seconds, which is what you want when a homeowner or an adjuster calls months later asking what the foundation looked like.
Field photos sync to CompanyCam when that integration is connected, so your crew keeps using the photo tools they already rely on while the job record in OblyssPro stays complete. Bring your current photo workflow to a demo and we will walk through how annotation fits alongside it.
Yes. Marked-up photos flow into the documentation you already build in OblyssPro, from before and after reports to insurance claim packages. A circled crack and a labeled repair point make that paperwork far more convincing than a folder of raw images ever could.

Let the photo make the case for you.

Book a 30-minute demo and watch a raw crawlspace photo become a circled, labeled piece of evidence that sells the job and documents it for good.

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