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.\"     Title: XYSCAN
.\"    Author: Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@ofset.org>
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.\"      Date: 05/28/2011
.\"    Manual: xyscan User Manual
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.TH "XYSCAN" "1" "05/28/2011" "xyscan" "xyscan User Manual"
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.SH "NAME"
xyscan \- data thief for scientist
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
.HP \w'\fBxyscan\fR\ 'u
\fBxyscan\fR
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.PP
\fBxyscan\fR
is a tool for scientist in the need to extract data points, i\&.e\&. numeric values, from a plot\&. It allows to scan the plots and extract data points including the size of the error bars (both in x and y)\&. It can handle plots with linear and logarithmic scales\&. In fact xyscan can be used for extracting numeric values from any kind of 2D technical drawings\&.
.SH "AUTHOR"
.PP
\fBGeorges Khaznadar\fR <\&georgesk@ofset\&.org\&>
.RS 4
Wrote this manpage for the Debian system\&.
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.SH "COPYRIGHT"
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Copyright \(co 2011 Georges Khaznadar
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.PP
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 or (at your option) any later version published by the Free Software Foundation\&.
.PP
On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in
/usr/share/common\-licenses/GPL\&.
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