Image import in Marvin

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OSRA software and integration into Marvin

OSRA is a utility designed to convert graphical representations of chemical structures.

Since Marvin version 5.3.0 images can be imported from files, and pasted into Marvin using the OSRA sofware.

Using OSRA in Marvin

To make OSRA usable in Marvin:

Two methods are available to import images into MarvinSketch:

Common problems

Common problems quoted from OSRA home page:

"Note that any software designed for optical recognition is unlikely to be perfect, and the output produced might, and probably will, contain errors, so a curation by a human knowledgeable in chemical structures is highly recommended."

So OSRA sometimes can not recognize a chemical structure or do some mistakes, and there are issues easy to forget about OSRA. These are the most common of problems:

Marvin uses OSRA software for image import by CADD Group Chemoinformatics Tools and User Services