A Simple Method for Obtaining Original Data from Published Graphs and Plots
From the post:
Was thinking of how to extract data points for infant age and weight distribution from a printed graph and I landed at this old paper http://www.ajronline.org/content/174/5/1241.full . it pointed me to NIH Image which reminds me of an old software i used to use for lab practicals as an undergrad .. and upon reaching the NIH Image site, Indeed! imageJ is an ‘update’ of sorts to the NIH Image software ..
The “old paper?” “A Simple Method for Obtaining Original Data from Published Graphs and Plots,” by Chris L. Sistrom and Patricia J. Mergo, American Journal of Roentgenology, May 2000 vol. 174 no. 5 1241-1244.
Update to the URI in the article, http://rsb.info.nih.gov/nih-image/ is correct. (Original URI is missing a hyphen, “-“.)
The mailing list archives don’t show much traffic for the last several years.
When you need to harvest data from published graphs/plots, what do you use?