XYSCAN(1)

📦 version 4.68, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 XYSCAN(1) — the xyscan user manual, but make it cute 💖

okay bestie, sit down, hydrate, and let me tell you about xyscan — it's a data thief for scientist 🕵️♀️✨ (yes that's the actual official tagline, we don't make the rules, we just slay by them)

🌸 NAME 🌸

xyscan — literally a data thief for scientist 💅 no cap, that's the whole vibe

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

xyscan

that's it. that's the whole invocation. one word, zero flags, maximum main character energy 👑

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the tea, bestie 🍓 — xyscan is a tool made for scientist who are in the need to extract data points, i.e. numeric values, from a plot. like, the plot is right there, the numbers are trapped inside it, and xyscan is the one breaking them out 🔓

it lets you scan the plots and extract data points — and not just the points, okay? it also grabs the size of the error bars, both in x and y 😤 because a data point without its uncertainty is giving unfinished homework

and the range?? it can handle plots with linear and logarithmic scales — log scales, linear scales, she does not care, she is versatile 💅

honestly? in fact xyscan can be used for extracting numeric values from any kind of 2D technical drawings. not just plots. drawings. blueprints. whatever 2D technical situation you've got going on, she's ready 🫶 it's giving universal tool fr fr

👑 AUTHOR 👑

  • Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@ofset.org> — wrote this manpage for the Debian system. iconic behaviour, we love a documentation queen 🎀

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 — go read it if you want the full lore, bestie, it's right there 💖

and that's the whole page!! 😭🫶 this was xyscan from the xyscan User Manual, dated 05/28/2011 — shoutout to the original footer that closed out as xyscan … 05/28/2011 … XYSCAN(1) 💜 now go extract some data points, you absolute legend 🌟

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