# HumanSignal/labelImg

LabelImg is now part of the Label Studio community. The popular image annotation tool created by Tzutalin is no longer actively being developed, but you can check out Label Studio, the open source data labeling tool for images, text, hypertext, audio, video and time-series data.

Repository: https://github.com/HumanSignal/labelImg
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/labelimg
Homepage: https://youtu.be/p0nR2YsCY_U
Language: Python
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: python2, python3, annotations, tools, imagenet, deep-learning, detection, recognition, image-classification
Archived: true
Last push: 2024-06-07T20:24:32+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4004, "days_push": 817, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 25060, forks 6584 (observed 2026-08-28T04:11:37.818823+00:00)

## What it is
LabelImg is a graphical image annotation tool written in Python with a Qt interface for drawing bounding boxes on images. It saves annotations as XML files in PASCAL VOC format and also supports YOLO and CreateML formats.

## Use cases
- annotate images with bounding boxes for object detection
- create PASCAL VOC XML annotations for training datasets
- label images in YOLO format for YOLO model training
- prepare labeled image datasets for deep learning
- draw rectangles around objects in photos for detection models

## When to choose
- you need a simple desktop tool to draw bounding boxes on images
- your pipeline expects PASCAL VOC, YOLO, or CreateML annotation formats
- you want a lightweight offline annotation tool without a server

## When to avoid
- you need active maintenance or support for new formats
- you need multi-modal labeling for text, audio, video, or time-series data
- you want collaborative or web-based annotation - use Label Studio instead

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: abandoned
- function: image-processing, gui, computer-vision
- domain: computer-vision, image-processing, machine-learning, deep-learning
- platform: windows, python, cross-platform
- tags: image-annotation, data-labeling, bounding-boxes, pascal-voc, yolo, object-detection, qt, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- HumanSignal/labelImg (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:37.818823+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T16:56:06.992752+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/HumanSignal/labelImg (fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:37.818823+00:00, sha a96eff5f3016)
  - homepage: https://youtu.be/p0nR2YsCY_U (fetched 2026-08-29T07:53:12.834571+00:00, sha d581c8de8606)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.