---
name: "xyscan"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "xyscan"
version: "4.66-1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/xyscan"
---

# xyscan(1)

data thief for scientist

## NAME

xyscan - data thief for scientist

## SYNOPSIS

**xyscan**

## DESCRIPTION

**xyscan** 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.

## AUTHOR

**Georges Khaznadar** \<georgesk@ofset.org\>

Wrote this manpage for the Debian system.

## COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2011 Georges Khaznadar\

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.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.