3. Selecting the reader

Stratigraphic diagrams and especially pollen diagrams come in different styles and formats.

Straditize supports the following:

area

bars

rounded bars

area

bars

rounded bars

line

stacked area

line

stacked

For each type there exists a specific reader that you can select from the drop down menu in the Reader initialization section of the straditizer control. If you’re diagram contains a mixture of types, just choose one type for now and you can then later create column specific readers.

After you chose the diagram part and selected the reader type (see the table above), you can now click the Convert image button. This initializes the reader and converts the data image to a binary image, i.e. black and white.

Everything that is black in this image will be considered as data by the reader. So the next steps will include, cleaning up the image and removing unimportant parts.