From Segmentation to Transcription: Simplifying Data Annotation with Universal Data Tool

Hazem Abbas

Mar 22, 2024 — 2 min read

What is the Universal Data Tool?

The Universal Data Tool is a web and desktop application for editing and annotating various types of data, including images, text, audio, and documents. It supports a range of data tasks such as image segmentation, text classification, audio transcription, and more.

The tool allows real-time collaboration without sign-up, and it can be used on the web or as a desktop application on Windows, Mac, or Linux. It also provides an easy-to-use GUI for project configuration and supports multiple data formats.

Features

Web and desktop application
Supports editing and annotating various types of data
Supports a range of data tasks such as image segmentation, text classification, audio transcription, etc.
Allows real-time collaboration without sign-up
Can be used on the web or as a desktop application on Windows, Mac, or Linux
Provides an easy-to-use GUI for project configuration
Supports multiple data formats
Allows to view and edit any data defined in the extensible .udt.json and .udt.csv standard
Allows to collaborate with others in real time
Allows to create courses to train labelers
Supports download/upload as easy-to-use CSV or JSON
Supports for Images, Videos, PDFs, Text, Audio Transcription and many other formats
Can be easily integrated into a React application
Allows to annotate images or videos with classifications, tags, bounding boxes, polygons and points
Enables Fast Automatic Smart Pixel Segmentation using WebWorkers and WebAssembly
Allows to import data from Google Drive, Youtube, CSV, Clipboard and more
Supports annotation of NLP datasets with Named Entity Recognition (NER), classification and Part of Speech (PoS) tagging.
Can be easily loaded into pandas or used with fast.ai
Runs with docker and singularity