使用python模块plotdigitizer抠取论文图片中的数据实例详解

技术背景

对于各行各业的研究人员来说，经常会面临这样的一个问题：有一篇不错的文章里面有很好的数据，但是这个数据在文章中仅以图片的形式出现。而假如我们希望可以从该图片中提取出数据，这样就可以用我们自己的形式重新来展现这些数据，还可以额外再附上自己优化后的数据。因此从论文图片中提取数据，是一个非常实际的需求。这里以前面写的量子退火的博客为例，博客中有这样的一张图片：

在这篇文章中，我们将介绍如何使用python从图片上把数据抠取出来。

plotdigitizer的安装

这里我们使用pip来安装python第三方库plotdigitizer，该库的主要功能就是可以自动化的从图片中提取出数据，我们可以使用腾讯的pip镜像源来加速我们的安装过程：

[dechin@dechin-manjaro plotdigitizer]$ python3 -m pip install -i https://mirrors.cloud.tencent.com/pypi/simple plotdigitizer
Looking in indexes: https://mirrors.cloud.tencent.com/pypi/simple
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 Downloading https://mirrors.cloud.tencent.com/pypi/packages/89/bb/ff753093458c05ce3b52fd17527b6b0622ca096aadcf561c6316320ab793/plotdigitizer-0.1.3-py3-none-any.whl (20 kB)
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Requirement already satisfied: python-dateutil>=2.1 in /home/dechin/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages (from matplotlib<4.0.0,>=3.3.4->plotdigitizer) (2.8.1)
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Installing collected packages: loguru, numpy, opencv-python, matplotlib, plotdigitizer
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Successfully installed loguru-0.5.3 matplotlib-3.3.4 numpy-1.20.1 opencv-python-4.5.1.48 plotdigitizer-0.1.3

通过运行帮助指令，我们可以查看是否安装成功：

[dechin@dechin-manjaro plotdigitizer]$ plotdigitizer -h
usage: plotdigitizer [-h] --data-point DATA_POINT [--location LOCATION] [--plot PLOT] [--output OUTPUT]
           [--preprocess] [--debug]
           INPUT

Digitize image.

positional arguments:
 INPUT         Input image file.

optional arguments:
 -h, --help      show this help message and exit
 --data-point DATA_POINT, -p DATA_POINT
            Datapoints (min 3 required). You have to click on them later. At least 3 points
            are recommended. e.g -p 0,0 -p 10,0 -p 0,1 Make sure that point are comma
            separated without any space.
 --location LOCATION, -l LOCATION
            Location of a points on figure in pixels (integer). These values should appear in
            the same order as -p option. If not given, you will be asked to click on the
            figure.
 --plot PLOT      Plot the final result. Requires matplotlib.
 --output OUTPUT, -o OUTPUT
            Name of the output file else trajectory will be written to <INPUT>.traj.csv
 --preprocess     Preprocess the image. Useful with bad resolution images.
 --debug        Enable debug logger

执行指令与输出图片

先把需要抠取数据的图片放到当前目录下，然后运行如下指令：

plotdigitizer ./test1.png -p 0,-1 -p 20,0 -p 0,0.1 --plot output.png

该指令会将test1.png中的数据提取出来，可以使用-o存储为csv格式的数据表格。这里实际使用中我们发现，即使不用plot指令，也会在Manjaro Linux系统下不断的输出打印图片，只有通过kill -9的方式才能强行将进程杀死，有可能是开源库中存在的某个bug。这里展示一下用新的数据绘制出来的效果图：

执行结束后，该图片会被输出到临时文件夹tmp/plotdigitizer/下，但是注意前面产生的图片会被后来的临时文件所覆盖。

总结概要

这里我们仅仅是介绍和演示了plotdigitizer的基本使用方法，这样一个使用python制作的图像数据工具更加符合pythoner的使用习惯和逻辑。虽然实际使用过程中工具可能出现各种各样的问题，但是基本上是一个比较好的工具，值得推荐。

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