A new version of ChemDoodle is available, this is a free update for all subscribers.

Whilst there are a few bug fixes and stability improvements the big news is the new feature enabling generation of a chemical structure from an image.

ChemDoodle now has the ability to recreate a chemical drawing from an image of a molecule, recovering the original chemical data. This function is performed using the File>Recover from Image... menu item. This function is different from inserting the image as inserting an image provides you with just a graphic, while recovering the chemical drawing allows you to regain access to the chemical information to use or edit further. We call this function Chemical Image Recovery (CIR). Some may also refer to this function as Optical Structure Recognition (OSR).

I can see this being a very popular feature.