Plot digitizer for images, plots and graphs

Digitization refers to the act of making analog information digital. Digitize is to convert pictures (for example) into a more useful digital form. Digitizer is a device that receives, processes and digitally records any analog information.

We provide software to perform image digitization for applications.

Create Traces

Tools Panel

Our product is different in the following ways:

• Can load a variety of background image formats

  : we support and can

  extract data from images

  in more than 70 graphic formats, making possible to use almost any image as background or source of data.
  
  

• Has several graphic primitives or shapes

  : besides the classic points, lines,

  polylines and arcs

  , the user has available Bezier lines, ellipses, free lines, polygons and rectangles.
  
  

• Can be calibrated in physical or real units

  : using the

  background image

  as a guide, the user can

  calibrate the plot

  in the same units as the background image, making all values to be in the same

  linear or log units

  .
  
  

• Supports multiple traces, with layers

  : the user can create a

  high number of traces

  , that can be grouped in different

  layers

  . Traces and layers can be set to be visible or inactive, allowing a seamless work flow.
  
  

• Trace editing

  : besides the usual copy/cut/paste/delete/undo operations, the user can rotate, front/back, align, center, flip, group and lock the traces.
  
  

• Visual aids

  : the plot can have crosshairs, different types of grids and zoom in/out,

  trace properties

  (width, color, active),

  traces list

  ,

  layers list

  .
  
  

• Automatic trace detection based on color

  : our algorithm can follow the path signaled by a color range, even if it is discontinuous, or there are variations in color hue, like in the *.jpg images.
  
  

• Can save the

  digitized

  values in many useful formats

  : the obtained real values can be saved in a

  variety of formats

  , including the classic CSV, but also plotter, DXF, Excel and a host of programming languages, like Matlab, Python, etc.
  
  

• Convert CSV to other formats

  : the values as CSV can be loaded to be drawn over the background image, and then saved in any of the supported save formats, making the tool ideal to

  automatically write code

  , for example.
  
  

• Image processing to help the digitation work

  : TraceCloner can transform the background image in ways to make it easier or more useful to create or

  generate traces

  , such as rotation, fade, contrast, colorize, flip, and others.
  
  

• Can convert to/from different graphics formats

  : the loaded background image from many different graphics formats can be saved in any other supported format, making TraceCloner a tool for

  image conversion

  .

The format of the generated data has been validated and verified, to make sure that we deliver the expected high quality.

These routines can be used in the field, in research or as academic introductions, or to verify the answers generated by other means.