#Datathief movie mac os#

Automatic detection of curves (solid, dotted or dashed), symbols, bar charts, or perimeters of areas.

#Datathief movie mac os#

Of course, if given the choice, I'd prefer open source software running on Linux and Mac OS.Ī colleague suggested I use GraphClick, a Mac OS software that includes (according to its website): I don't think it'd be appropriate to have extra requirements on the software, so I'm happy with free or commercial solutions, running on any OS. Is that even something that exists? What other tools can you recommend to work around this issue? Thus, I am looking for a data extraction software that could recognize individual points automagically, and possibly filter them by point color or symbol used. I currently use g3data to do that, but for large scatter plots having to click on every single point is tedious. Sometime, it's not even possible (I can hardly email the author of a 1936 paper!). Some authors never reply, or ask questions like “what do you want to do with it?”. Most will do it, sometimes in nice ASCII format, sometimes in Excel files, sometimes in formats that I cannot open (chemists are fond of software like Origin or Igor Pro). One option is to ask the contact author for raw data. For example, a scatter plot from which I would like to get a list of individual ( x, y) coordinates for the points. There are many times when I am faced with the task of extracting data from a published graph (usually a bitmap image in an paper).