Hardcopy to X,Y summary 2

Edward T. Chainani (etch@ginto.chem.admu.edu.ph)
Wed, 15 Apr 1998 09:04:04 +0800 (PST)

In my haste, I forgot to summarize the software and vendors, which appears
below. I have never used any of the software, so I do not know about their
suitability or performance.

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Data Thief:

The program was written by Kees Huyser and Jan van der Laan of the
Computer Systems Group of the
Nuclear Physics Section at the:

National Institute for Nuclear Physics and High Energy Physics (NIKHEF-K),
PO Box 4395
1009 AJ Amsterdam
The Netherlands

The program is available by email from the authors and by anonymous ftp
from sumex-aim.stanford.edu, macarchives.umich.edu and AppleLink.

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There was also a program I used on my dissertation to
digitize a spectrum from an article on an HP-Plotter. You put the pen
on a release mode and moved the pen tip to where you wanted and then
digitized the point. I think the name was PLOTIT or something like
that.

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At least two packages (NT) off this: Digimatic 800-622-334 ($300.00)
and I think FlexiTrace for Mac platforms (408 508-9349)

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There is/was a program called Un-Plot-it that could do this.
The original version used an x,y plotter outfitted with an optical
sensor in place of the pen. I believe they have ported it over
to use scanners. I don't have any contact info though.

I recently got a flyer in the mail for a program called UnGraph ($399)
that
can digitize a hardcopy plot using a scanner and turn it into x,y data.
Their contact info is:

Biosoft
P.O. Box 10938
Ferguson, MO 63135-9913
(314) 524-8029
FAX (314) 524-9129
info@biosoft.com

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Do a search on Silk Scientific on the web...the software is called
Un-Scan-It

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There was a program available for the HP7550 plotter called unplotit. It
would follow the trace and "re-digitize" the data. It came from:

Silk Scientific Corp.
266 East 400 South
Orem, UT 84058

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