Excel spreadsheet from a JPG image

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niko -  
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Hello,
I need to convert a lot of 2 or 3-variable graphs into an Excel spreadsheet.
That is, be able to extract the values of the points present on the curves according to the different scales of the graphs.
I have a scanner and Excel at my disposal, but I'm not sure how to proceed because the cumbersome method would be to manually point out all my points, note them down, and insert them into a table, which would take too much time.
Does anyone have an idea, please? Maybe this has happened to some people before..

Thank you in advance
Have a nice day
Best regards
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niko
 
Hello
I found my happiness, a software in English indeed exists, it was inconceivable to me that no one thought of it among scientists, engineers or other academics...
Here is the link http://digitizer.sourceforge.net/
I think that professionals have much more powerful software, but this one is already quite good and I believe it will save me considerable time, you can re-point, set scales and even recognize graphs directly, to be used with caution..
Thank you for your help and your exchanges in any case
Best regards
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st
 
Perfect. That's exactly the answer to the question asked. Thank you!
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Raymond PENTIER Posted messages 58546 Registration date   Status Contributeur Last intervention   17 474
 
No: the "heavy" method that you dislike is still the only feasible one!

Even with OCR (optical character recognition) software you could convert a table of values, but not the graphics themselves...
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niko
 
Hello,
thank you for your response even if it's not the one I hoped for :-)
I still wonder if with software that could reference the axes and the graduations like GIS software with which we can geo-reference maps, I could manage to carry out this operation, but I can't see myself doing this with ArcGIS… I continue to look for a method, I tried to import an image into Excel but you can't create a graph on top of it unless you input data, the only thing I could do is retrieve the data and see if after creating scatter plots they match the original graph (not very useful)
best regards, have a nice day.
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Raymond PENTIER Posted messages 58546 Registration date   Status Contributeur Last intervention   17 474
 
And you have no way to get in touch with the author (or the publisher) of the graphs to ask them for their source tables?
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niko
 
No, I have a multitude of graphs from various scientific publications; it would take even longer than doing it by hand!
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niko > niko
 
I'm always trying to find .. I can't imagine being the only one in this situation .. I'm sure someone has a tip .. help me!! :-)
Have a nice day
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Raymond PENTIER Posted messages 58546 Registration date   Status Contributeur Last intervention   17 474
 
Get in touch with one of our French technopoles (south-west of Paris, Sophia Antipolis, Inovallée - ZIRST de Meylan, Futuroscope...), or with the research department of one of our leading industries (EADS, Thales, CNES ...), or even with one of our prestigious schools teaching robotics (Polytechnique, ENST, ENSTA, Arts & Métiers, INSA de Strasbourg, ISIA, ISIMA de Clermont-Ferrand ...).
Maybe you will find information on a device capable of "reading" a drawing by recording its coordinates point by point, while remaining within your budget and technological skills.

Don't dream: Throughout the 23,300 discussions contained in this forum, to my knowledge, no one has made a similar request... You therefore have an infinitesimal probability of finding someone likely to provide you with the trick you wish for!

Best regards.
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niko
 
Thank you very much for your information,
you can imagine that this hard work is part of my job, I am a geologist and need to gather as much data as possible from publications in order to conduct a study later on.
Thank you for your probability :-) but I am not discouraged at all, I will try the mentioned addresses perhaps.
Best regards
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miya > niko
 
Good evening sir, I have the same problem as you right now, and I was wondering if you managed to find the software since you have been looking for it since 2009. So please, if you finally got it, could you send me the link please? Thank you in advance.
Best regards.
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Raymond PENTIER Posted messages 58546 Registration date   Status Contributeur Last intervention   17 474
 
In addition to the organizations and schools mentioned above, it seems to me that in the world of sewing there are machines for making patterns, capable of reading and reproducing the sketches of pattern makers and designers ...
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mikeulkeul
 
There is also the Graphclick software available for Mac.
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niko
 
Hi, oh cool, that could be useful! You must be a clairvoyant; I just got a Mac G5 yesterday for personal use, though ;)
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max
 
Thank you Niko
thank you a thousand times
in five minutes you just unlocked a tricky point of our five-year engineering school project ;)
See you later
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