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How to use your scanner for measurements

Gathering coordinate data from scanned pictures or objects.


This is a presentation of our CooRecorder program for recording coordinates taken from scanned pictures.
The program can be downloaded free of charge from this site.

You can use your computer scanner to take interesting photos of things which can be placed on the top of your scanner. If the things are transparent and small, they can be taped up on transparent film and then inserted into a film scanner. Such a photo can be displayed on your computer screen. You can enlarge the photo to see interesting details and you can write down coordinates of these details. It is a very tedious job to do this very manual registration if you have an interest in lots of data for later statistical analysis. Our CooRecorder program solves the problem by letting you just click on interesting points in your picture. The coordinates of these points are automatically written onto a file which you can later analyze with another program.

When do I use the program?

I do have this registration problem for two of my own interests: Bee-keeping and Dendrochronological analysis.

Breeding for better bees. For bee keeping it is a matter of measuring characteristic data from bee wings. This data may tell if the wings come from bees of a pure breed or from a mixed up breed or from a special breed. Mixed up bees are often angry. A bee keeper tries to avoid angry bees, because they annoy his neighbours and he gets stung by them. Identifying a breed is also a matter of breeding for a lot of other qualities than just non-aggressiveness.

Dating old houses and other constructions of tree. For dendrochronological data it is a matter of measuring the width of tree rings. A long sequence of such widths from a tree sample can be used to find out the age of the tree. I.e. to find out when an old house was actually built.

The CooRecorder program

Our CooRecorder program (Cybis Coordinate Recorder program) rids you of the tedious work of writing down bulks of coordinates by hand into a file for later statistical processing. With CooRecorder you can just click on successive points and have the coordinates automatically recorded.

You are free to download it from this site and use it as you like. Though you are NOT allowed to distribute CooRecorder in any way to other persons. But we would really appreciate if you direct them here to our site at www.cybis.se

Though Cybis CooRecorder is free of charge, it is protected by the copyright laws.

Downloading CooRecorder

Before you download CooRecorder, please write me an email and tell me for what type of measuring you are going to use the program. With your address available I also have a chance to inform you about new versions of the program.

If you find any bug in the program, please write me a note so I can correct what is wrong.

Saltsjöbaden 29 January 2001

Lars-Åke Larsson -

The small handbook of CooRecorder: The CooRecorder handbook
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For downloading, click on the link below:
(Current version 1.1.4. 2001-03-28)

(No essential change has been made since version 1.1.1 except for the change of the name.)

The CooRecorder program, packed as a .zip file: Download the CooRecorder program (3.5MB)

Installation: Unzip the downloaded .zip file with either PKUNZIP or WINZIP. After unzipping, run the Setup.exe program and the installation will start.

Disclaimer Cybis Elektronik & Data AB do not warrant the results you may obtain by using the CooRecorder program. In no event will Cybis be liable to you for any damages whatsoever arising out of the use or inability to use this program.