CLiDE (Chemical Literature Data Extraction) version 4 was released
Monday, October 25th, 2010CLiDE is a sophisticated chemical OCR application, that can extract molecular structures from images or PDF files, and can save them in several chemical file formats like: MOL, SDF and XML, or transfer them seamlessly to various chemical editors. CLiDE is available in three packages: Standard, Professional or Batch. Each of them is serving a slightly different need at different prices. CLiDE-Standard and CLiDE-Professional offer a contemporary graphical user interface, with all the recognition features embedded in a user-friendly document/image viewer, for more info see: http://www.simbiosys.com/products/leaflets/CLiDE_folder.pdf
Release 4 contained major improvements to the product including:
- improved recognition accuracy
- improved input & output file format handling: introduced support for several new raster image file formats (GIF, JPEG, PBM, PGM, PNG, PNM, PPM, XBM, XPM); and introduced XML output file format that can be loaded for later editing
- introduced capability to extract chemical structures from tables
- saving molecules with super atoms in expanded or contracted form
Complete listing of changes is available upon request.
Feel free to contact me if you have any questions about this new CLiDE release, or sign up for a no-fee evaluation of CLiDE on our website: http://www.simbiosys.com/products/demo_request.html
posted by Aniko
