Importing Data and Labels

To use Encord Active, you need data. This page shows you ways in which you can import your data into Encord Active.

Depending on where your data if currently stored, you can choose the option that best suits you.

📄️ Importing Encord Project

For projects already in the Encord Annotate platform.

📄️ Importing COCO Project

Import a dataset and annotations which are stored in COCO format on your local file system.

📄️ Initializing from an Image Directory

Grep arbitrary images from within a dataset directory.

📄️ Custom Data Import

🔥 HARD 🔥 If you have a custom data and label structure.

Current data and label support of the four workflows are:

Import Type	Data Type		Label Type
	Images	Videos	Classification	Bounding Boxes	Polygons
Encord	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
COCO	✅	-	-	✅	✅
Data directory	✅	-	✅	-	-
Custom Data - 🔥 hard 🔥	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅