Using SheetScan
SheetScan allows you to extract characteristics data from graphics such as data sheets that have been scanned and saved in any of the following formats: .bmp, .dib, .jpg, .gif, .tif, .tga, .pcx, .htm, or .html. SheetScan can be accessed at the AEDT project level from the Project > Datasets > SheetScan button.
In addition to importing graphic files directly, SheetScan also can be used to browse the Internet for datasheet information and transfer a snapshot of the web page to the SheetScan editor where you can map axes on the image as an overlay. You can then manually add datapoints to approximate the characteristic curve(s) on the datasheet. The sampled data can then be converted to Maxwell format, and the extracted data exported to a Maxwell dataset or saved to a tab-delimited file.
The process for creating a dataset using SheetScan involves four basic operations:
- Loading a datasheet into SheetScan
- Defining a coordinate system for the imported datasheet picture
- Defining a characteristic curve using the datasheet picture as reference
- Exporting the characteristic curve data to a file or to a dataset
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Loading a Datasheet into SheetScan