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#USE DATATHIEF WITH NO AXIS PDF#
#USE DATATHIEF WITH NO AXIS CODE#

The problem is that it can (and almost always) contain compressed data streams which require to be uncompressed in order to read them by a text editor.

#USE DATATHIEF WITH NO AXIS PDF#

Since the papers are published online as PDF files, I assume that you have a PDF file which contains vector plot with data you wish to recover from it (get in numerical form) and estimate introduced recovery error.įirst of all, PDF is a vector format which is basically textual (can be read by a text editor).

#USE DATATHIEF WITH NO AXIS CODE#

In this case you can achieve much higher exactness of the recovered data and even estimate the recovery error if you work with the code of the vector graph directly, without converting it to raster image. But nowadays the good practice is to publish graphs in vector form. Other answerers assume that you deal with raster image of a graph. OpenSource (BSD) plugin that runs in a proprietary platform, Matlab (open source - GNU GPL) Has zoom window, no auto-recognition. Browser based, extracts data from images. (free, open source), because it simplifies the processs of getting data from the graph into an analysis by keeping all of the steps in R. (open source, most extensible after R digitize) (shareware) auto point / line recognition (shareware) has zoom window, auto point / line recognition Available in Ubuntu repository (engauge-digitizer) (free software, GPL) auto point / line recognition. If have not tested the accuracy of any of these programs, but it would be interesting to compare among users, among programs, and against the results of reproduced statistical analyses. error from digitization << size of error bars or uncertainty in the estimate). Except in contexts where measurement error is very small, error from graph scraping is insignificant (e.g. I have listed them below.Īll of the ones I have used work fine. There are many programs, and they vary in extra features, usability, licensing, and cost.

Often it helps selecting points if the image is zoomed, either by uploading a zoomed version of the image or using the zooming feature available in some of the programs. The program returns each point as an x-y matrix. This feature could be worth the trouble for digitizing lines, but I have never had to do this. I have not found one that recognizes different symbols. I am usually after points, and I find them too inconsistent to be helpful even with 100s of points.

Some of the programs automatically recognize lines or points.

indicate if the scale is linear, log, etc,.

set the x and y scales by indicating the values at two points on each axis.

Good, the data are points can be isolated via color recognition.There are many different options, but all basically use the same workflow: I clicked on the Settings tab, fiddled with some options, and got the next graph via the Show button. I am interested in automating this process for a graph with hundreds of data points? Drag the crosshairs from the gray box over each data point. Let's match the data points via the scatter plot option (lower right button). Tracing a continuous graph appears to be just one (the upper right button) of DataThief's four data acquisition modes. The result was a tidy text file with my data points. I placed the Start, Color, and End markers, choose Trace (Action Menu), and then Export (File Menu). The vertical red/green rectangle is a progress bar relating how fit, squared, orthogonal the reference points are. Next, I set the coordinates of some reference points on the graph, by moving the colored crosshairs. I found it helpful to zoom in (Action Menu). After a plane is defined (by marking three coordinates on the picture), one can mouse over the graph to find the numerical coordinates of each points.Ĭan it be automated? Online documentation seems to be nil. DataThief is a nifty Shareware utility for extracting the coordinates from an image of a graph.