DataThief.sea.hqx

                               DataThief
                    Kees Huyser & Jan van der Laan
          Computer Science Group of Nuclear Physics Section
                National Institute for Nuclear Physics
                              PO Box 4395
                           1009 AJ Amsterdam
                            The Netherlands

    DataThief takes a PICT file of a graph or scatter plot and converts the
data to a table which can be saved in text format.  Ususally, the PICT file
would be from a scanner of a printed graph, but any PICT representation of
a graph will work.  For example, a graph can be generated in another
mathematical application and saved in PICT form, then DataThief can be used
to extract data values of the graph.  (Useful for constructing examples 
for studying data in a classroom setting.)  For scatter plots, the user
obtains the data by clicking on each of the data points.  For curves, there
is a useful trace facility.
    
    There is online help and instruction.
    
    The program runs on current Macintosh configurations.
    

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