Tool(software) of reading data from curves 5

[Allennew]

Tool(software) of reading data from curves

I once used a very small but useful software (tool), which can read and save the data from a figure just by clicking the mouse. It's very useful when people want to read out the values from certain curves in a figure of a technical paper. Otherwise, people have to use a ruler and read values point by point.

However, I couldn't remember the name of this software (tool). I'm just wondering anyone here may know the name and kindly let me know?

Thanks in advance!

Allan

 

[IRstuff]

There are several such programs

Digitize for Windows
Digitizer
Tracer
Picker

TTFN

FAQ731-376

 

[Allennew]

IRstuff, thank you so much!

 

[MortenA]

download digitize it '2004 from e.g. download.com

Its easy to use and free!

You can paste any picture into the program.

Scale it and then just click along the curve and the values ands up in a table that can be copied to excel.

Theres a "zoom" window following the cross hair at all time so that you can hit the curve with high precicion. Only the quality of your curve and scan is the limit.

I highyly recommend it!

I think this link will work:

http://www.download.com/Digitize-it-2004/3000-2056_4-10489009.html?tag=lst-1

Best regards

Morten

 

[Panars]

I used a program called Digimouz to do this a while back. Just Google the name to find it.

 

[Allennew]

Hi Morten, thank you so much for the instruction and providing the download place. I really appreciate it!

Allen

 

[jhardy1]

Thanks, Morten - a great utility.

Previously, I had been pasting a scanned image into my CAD program, scaling the image, tracing over the curves in CAD, export as DXF, then import and parse the resulting ASCII DXF file - very slow and laborious. This is a really neat solution!

 

[electricpete]

Cool.

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