Plot digitization - scraping sample values from an image of a graph
This isn't really "OCR", since it's not recognizing characters, but it's the same idea applied to curves. Anyone know of an image-processing library or established algorithm for retrieving the values from a (raster) plot image? For instance, in this graph, it's hard for me to read exact values with my eyes because there's such gaps between gridlines: I can use a straight edge or whatever, but it's still going to be error-prone. It would be great if there were software that could just take a screenshot of any old graph and automatically convert it into a table of values or a function that could