No image loaded A tracer copies what a chart looks like. This reads what it says: calibrate the axis, measure the geometry, hand back numbers and a rebuilt SVG made of real rectangles and real text. Start with a sample to see the accuracy on data whose true values are already known.
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Both options end at the same place: clean SVG plus recovered numbers. They differ in how much of the pipeline is automatic on day one. Option B ships the amber stages as human clicks and buys back the automation later, once the tool has proved it saves time.
Option A — Full architecture
Everything automatic, nothing to click
Stages built
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Rough effort
4–6 mo
Clicks / chart
0
Option B — Narrow MVP · chosen
Automatic where it's cheap, human where it's hard
Stages built
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Rough effort
3–4 wk
Clicks / chart
3
Automatic Human click Deferred to a later phase