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Image annotation (areas, rectangles)

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Description

## Feature Request Form
Feature request from Zendesk: https://hypothesis.zendesk.com/agent/tickets/2563

Image annotation is mentioned in https://github.com/hypothesis/vision/issues/51, but not anywhere in our backlog that I can find.

### Problem you are trying to address with this feature
Currently annotations can only anchor to lines of text or to pages (as Page Notes). There is no way to annotate images or areas of pages.

### Your solution
User has requested the ability to highlight an area of a page / document by creating a rectangle or box. There are other ways to implement, but this is how this user would expect the feature to work.

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Research direction

Start by reading the linked vision issue #51 and the referenced Zendesk ticket to understand the requested image and page-area annotation behavior. Done means agreeing on an implementation approach and supporting rectangle or box annotations, but this issue does not identify files, tests, or a concrete entry point.

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Assessment

Domain
frontend
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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