How to put text in an existing figure/image (maybe with tikz?)

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I was wondering if it's possible to have an existing image (possibly in a figure environment) and then add text at arbitrary locations within that image/figure. Does maybe Tikz allow something like that?

For clarity: This wiki link has this synapse image with hyperlinks at the beginning of arrows that point to specific parts of the synapse. When clicking on the image I only see the png file and the hyperlinks disappeared and only arrows without description pointing to stuff so I would like to reintroduce these texts.

Take a look at the question Drawing on an image with TikZ as it seems similar. Does that help? If not, it would be useful if you could explain how your situation differs from that. — Andrew Stacey, Apr 19 '12 at 09:52
As this doesn't say TikZ must be used, I've added a link to a question with non-TikZ ways of doing this as well. — Andrew Stacey, Apr 19 '12 at 10:28

score 43 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 19 '12 at 09:53

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No doubt you can use TikZ but if you just want to overlay text you don't need any extra packages at all

\begin{picture}(100,100)
\put(0,0){\includegraphics{....}}
\put(10,10){hello}
\end{picture}

will write "hello" over your image.

answered Apr 19 '12 at 09:53

David Carlisle

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What does (100, 100) mean? – Nov 19 '20 at 07:28
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@HaozheXie make an (invisible) box 100pt x 100pt in size, in which the image is placed in bottom left (0,0) and the text placed slightly up and to the right (10,10) – David Carlisle Nov 19 '20 at 07:41
Thanks for your rapid reply. – Nov 19 '20 at 08:18

How to put text in an existing figure/image (maybe with tikz?)

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