Grab It! XP

Ever had a beautiful chart you`ve created yet forgot to save the data that created it? Have you ever had an officemate who sent you the data you`ve been begging for yet it`s in the form of a chart? Do you have old, year`s worth of graphs and old data from years past that you want kept forever? Want to compare data from a competitor`s graph to data of your own? Don`t worry! Grab It! Is the program to answer all of your problems? Grab It is a program that digitizes any picture graph and you can obtain the original data that was used to create the graph. Grab It can find the data from any graph whether it was one scanned in on the scanner or if it was a graph that`s just sitting on your computer from an old Excel presentation. Templates can be created using Microsoft Excel to automatically tell the computer to perform certain operations on the data the graph provides.

Grab It! is a Microsoft Excel based application that digitizes graphs or charts to obtain the original data. Graphs and charts can have data point values digitized or photos can have angle and distance measurements made. All data is placed directly into Excel for easy re-use. Skewed graphs are handled automatically (sometimes scanning isn't perfectly straight) as well as linear, log, date or time charts. Output is displayed in real time and special features for error bar graphs, stock charts, and multiple data sets are included. Power user settings allow calibrations to be saved and/or edited for repetitive use applications. Grab It is especially useful for accurately digitizing published data from literature or operation manuals for comparison against your own data. Another common application is to digitize old data that isn't in an electronic format (old hardcopies of charts for instance). Templates can be created in Excel to automatically perform calculations on the data that you retrieve.