© 2024 Jasper van Baten, AmsterCHEM

Welcome to ScanIt

ScanIt is a program for obtaining data from scanned graphs. Data can be present in the form of curves, of symbols, or you can simply gather data by clicking on point in the graph.

To get started, you first have to either open an image of a graph. Next, you will need to identify three known coordinates in the graph to define the X and Y axes.

Now you can either pick your data points by hand, or collect the data from curves or symbols. After you have collected the data, copy it to the clipboard or save it to file, so that you can continue using the data in another application (such as a spread-sheet program, or graphing software).

System requirements

To run ScanIt you will need Window XP, or higher.

Acknowledgements

Programming: Jasper van Baten / AmsterCHEM

Thanks to: Richard Baur

Microsoft, MS, Windows, Windows NT, Win32, and Win32s are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the U.S.A. and/or other countries.

this software is based in part on JIMlib (C) Jasper.

this software is based in part on the work of the Independent JPEG Group

this software uses libpng

this software uses GIF decoding partly based on the PBMPlus package by Jef Poskanzer

this software is based in part on libtiff, Copyright (c) 1988-1997 Sam Leffler / Copyright (c) 1991-1997 Silicon Graphics, Inc.

this software is based in part on zlib, Copyright (C) 1995-1998 Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler

this software uses RAPIDXML Copyright (C) 2006, 2009 Marcin Kalicinski

this software is based in part on minizip, Copyright (C) 1998-2005 Gilles Vollant

Other product and company names mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

INDEX
.BMP
.GIF
.JPG
.PNG
.SID
.TIF
.TXT
Acknowledgements
Adjusting data points
Axes definition
Background color
Bitmap file
Black and white filter
Brightness
Clipboard
Contrast
Coordinates
Creating a data set
Crop
Curves
Data files
Data format
Data sets
Defaults
Defining your axes
Deleting data
Disclaimer
Editing data
Erasing data
Exporting data
Filtering your image
Format
Getting started
Graphics Interchange File format (GIF)
Gray scale filter
Highlighting edges of colored regions
Hot keys
Importing images from other applications
Introduction
Inverting colors
JPEG files
Keyboard shortcuts
License
Lines between data points
Logarithmic axes
Manipulating data
Manually picking points
Marker color
Marker size
Mode
Moving data points
New data set
New window
Opening documents
Opening images
Pasting images
Picking points
Portable Network Graphics (PNG)
printf format strings
Reducing color resolution
Removing data
Removing noise
Resampling data
Saving documents
Saving your image
ScanIt Document files (SID)
Scanning for symbols
Scanning points on a curve
Selected marker color
Selecting data
Shortcut keys
Significant digits
Snap
Sorting data
Starting a document
Symbols
System requirements
Tagged Image File Format (TIF)
Text files
Trace recursion level
Using your data in other applications
Zoom View
CONTENT
 Welcome to ScanIt
 Opening images from files
 Opening images from the clipboard
 The document windows
 Storing and loading documents
 The Zoom View
 Preparing your image
 Gathering data
 Manipulating data
 Using data in other applications
 Options
 Keyboard shortcuts
 Disclaimer and license