{"id":911,"date":"2014-10-08T22:56:26","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T22:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbsolutions.com\/projects\/?p=911"},"modified":"2022-02-03T11:25:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T17:25:00","slug":"finding-likely-cell-place-text-blocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbsolutions.com\/projects\/finding-likely-cell-place-text-blocks\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding most likely Excel A1 cell to place text blocks in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I had some manually entered non-tables in an AutoCAD\u00a0document that I needed to get to an Excel format. Non tables literally refers to tables made by placing text in a rectangular x,y fashion. So these were Bentley ISO&#8217;s that the machine makes a material take off in the upper right corner. Not knowing that the future held in terms of the number of columns &#8211; this turned out to be a &#8220;get all x values and make a histogram of buckets x millimeters wide&#8221;. This is basically how communications determines wireless signals in quadrature (x\/y plane). Since humans can enter text boxes alongside the machine &#8211; what is the best guess for the grid?<\/p>\n<p>We could use some col math like the Verterbi algorithm &#8211; but that is a little too complicated. Basically making a histogram and determininig the best row and column was the best approach. Unlike wireless communication theory &#8211; the bucket widths are completely known w.r.t. to each drawing that we process AND the number of columns are unknown. What is known is that within a drawing &#8211; there are a consistent number of rows and columns.<\/p>\n<p>It worked by the way.<\/p>\n<p>Some links.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/8979752\/how-to-count-number-of-peaks-in-graph-graph-analysis<\/li>\n<li>Verterbi algorithm:\u00a0http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Viterbi_algorithm<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I had some manually entered non-tables in an AutoCAD\u00a0document that I needed to get to an Excel format. Non tables literally refers to tables made by placing text in a rectangular x,y fashion. So these were Bentley ISO&#8217;s that the machine makes a material take off in the upper right corner. 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