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title: "Copying Boxes and Templates"
description: "Copy boxes between images in LumiScan Annotation Web: from the previous image, onto the next images of a series, with Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V, and box templates per label."
product: "LumiScan Annotation Web"
component: "lumiscan-annotation-web"
version: "2.4.0"
display_version: "2.4.0.0"
latest_version: false
language: "en"
url: "https://docs.hdvisionsystems.com/en/lumiscan-annotation-web/2.4.0/copying-boxes-and-templates.html"
---

# Copying Boxes and Templates – LumiScan Annotation Web

Images of a series often show the same parts in nearly the same place. Copying the boxes and moving them a little is much faster than drawing them again.

[Video](https://docs.hdvisionsystems.com/en/lumiscan-annotation-web/2.4.0/_images/videos/copying-boxes.mp4)

The **Copy ▾** menu below the image collects the ways to copy:

![Menu Copy with the entries Boxes from the previous image, Copy these boxes to the next images, Copy all boxes and Paste boxes](https://docs.hdvisionsystems.com/en/lumiscan-annotation-web/2.4.0/_images/screens/copy-menu.png)

## Boxes from the previous image

`V` (or **Copy ▾ → Boxes from the previous image**) puts the boxes of the image before this one in the list onto the open image. If the open image has boxes already, you choose: **Add them** or **Replace these**.

Then adjust what moved and save. The copy is one step of [undo](https://docs.hdvisionsystems.com/en/lumiscan-annotation-web/2.4.0/history-and-undo.html): `Ctrl+Z` takes it back.

## Copy to the next images

For a series where the parts do not move, **Copy ▾ → Copy these boxes to the next images…** saves the boxes of the open image directly onto the next images of the list:

|   |   |
| --- | --- |
| Number of next images | How many images after this one, in the order of the list (images the list does not show are skipped). |
| Also replace boxes those images have already | Off (default): images with boxes keep theirs. On: their boxes are replaced. |

Images someone else has open right now are skipped; the status says how many. Open the images afterwards with `D` and correct what differs.

> [!TIP]
> **Save and copy to next** (`Alt+S`) does the same for one image at a time: it saves, opens the next image and puts the boxes on it, unsaved, so you see each image before it is saved.

## Copy and paste

- `Ctrl+C` copies the selected box, or all boxes if none is selected.
- `Ctrl+V` pastes them on the open image, at the same position. It works on any image, also in another browser tab of the same browser.

`Ctrl+V` pastes when no box is selected. With a box selected, `Ctrl+V` keeps its meaning from the desktop tool (height − 1 pixel); copying a box deselects it, so `Ctrl+C`, `Ctrl+V` pastes. On a Mac, `Cmd+C` and `Cmd+V` always copy and paste.

## Box templates {#box-templates}

Parts of a fixed size get boxes of nearly the same size and orientation on every image. A **template** remembers that size and orientation per label.

1. Draw one box of the label carefully, with the [bottom edge](https://docs.hdvisionsystems.com/en/lumiscan-annotation-web/2.4.0/annotating-images.html#center-lines-and-bottom-edge) on the right side.
2. With the box selected, click **Save as template** in the **Selected box** panel (project admins). The label list marks labels with a template with ▭.
3. From then on, `T` places a box of the current label at the mouse pointer: the label of the selected box, or the one clicked last. **Place … template** in the **Labels** panel does the same in the middle of the image.
4. Move the box into place (drag, or the arrow keys) and turn it if needed (`Ctrl` / `Shift` + `U` / `O`).

Templates are part of the [project settings](https://docs.hdvisionsystems.com/en/lumiscan-annotation-web/2.4.0/project-settings.html#box-templates), where they can also be changed or removed.