DataThief 3.0 review

DataThief allows you to extract coordinate information from scanned graphs.

License: Shareware OS: Mac OS X File size: 290K Developer: Datathief Buy Now Price: $25.00 Updated: 28 Sep 2005

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DataThief allows you to extract coordinate information from scanned graphs.

DataThief III is written in Java, which means it runs on various platforms.
It replaces DataThief II that was only available for MacOS 8 and MacOS 9.

Here are some key features of "DataThief":
It is written in Java, it runs on Windows, Unix, Macos...
It is capable of tracing any more or less continuous line, even when the line crosses itself.
It can convert data from numeric format to any other format, for instance date.

Limitations:
10 second startup screen.

What's New:
Fully user definable axes
Non linear axes, e.g. Polar coordinates
Automatic error bar detection
Non numeric axis e.g. a data based axis.