Abstract: “Annotation plays a important role in our daily life and study. Mostly documents exist in digital format on the web, people spends a large amount of their time on searching the web browsers for looking useful information. This is the unidirectional interaction with user.Annotations grow geometrically because of the reflections on documents shown by different writers and with their writing time. Firstly we have introduced the history of the annotation then some research related work done in the annotation results. Annotation can be done for the Web, java, pdf, text, xps (XML Paper Specification), mobile, image, multimedia etc. We focus on the survey to see the use of annotation in different areas along with the usage in different scenarios. In Information research for decision making and integrating an annotation database can be founded on the parameters such as document, user and time. Website which supports annotation systems, provide user friendly interfaces, easy-to-use structural an”

Keywords: Information search, Information retrieval, Annotation, Metadata