A BASIC digitising program

A program written in the BASIC computer language is presented. It represents an inexpensive way to enter the field of digitising information into a computer for analysis. Clinicians with a rudimentary knowledge of BASIC will be able to customise the program for their own uses. For example, not only can it be modified to one’s personal cephalometric analysis, but it also allows the clinician to digitise photocopies of the occlusal surfaces of study models for arch length analyses. It is applicable to most two dimensional images one wishes to analyse.