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From: gblee@maui.cs.ucla.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: help (graphic input and manipulation)
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Date: 4 Apr 89 17:34:50 GMT
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I am a kind of novice in PC world, so I post this problems to get
help from PC hackers (specially graphics and dBass hackers).

I have some pictures on the several papers (It is a picture composed of 
some bars with some marks on it, and some arrows...things like that, in other words, it is a kind of geometric figure), and I would like to make a
program which read pictures, manipulate them, and produce some what
modified pictures.. I have several questions.

1. Is it possible to read the figure on the paper directly inside
the PC by using some special input device (such as a scanner). Probably,
that kind of input device won't exist, if then, can i use digitizer for this
purpose? what kind of digitizer is available to IBM-AT?

2. If there is no way to directly input the figure data, them may be, I can
select some features from the figure data and make a program that produce
modified figures by manipulating those selected features...
For my purpose, what kind of graphic software is most useful? Is
AUTOCAD useful for this purpose? I want my program (which manipulates and 
outputs graphics) to communicate with the dBaseIII data. What is a good 
approach for it?

It seems that I need several advices. come on you PC hackers and 
graphic and dBase experts..... Please help me.
Please send advices to me directly. My e-mail is 
gblee@cs.ucla.edu
thank you..

Geunbae Lee
AI lab, UCLA