A Collection of Free Softwares for Physics

Engauge Digitizer

http://digitizer.sourceforge.net/
If you only have an image of a graph from scientific journal and you want to know the numerical values of curves/points on the graph, then you need to digitize the graph. This is a reverse process in comparison to plotting process. This open source, digitizing software can convert an image file of a graph or map into numerical data.