Extracting data from an image of plots

Stéfan van der Walt stefanv at berkeley.edu
Fri Feb 26 19:00:05 EST 2016


On 26 February 2016 at 15:15, Josh Warner <silvertrumpet999 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Using tools like Inkscape and/or the GIMP you should be able to crop any
> arbitrary figure out of a scanned paper/image and transform it so it's at
> least relatively rectilinear. Save that out as an image and these tools
> start to be useful - though there may be some customization left to go
> depending on what type of figure you're digitizing.
>

If you have a PDF that wasn't scanned (i.e., straight out of LaTeX), you
can export the figures directly.

Stéfan
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