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What is PEAXACT?
PEAXACT is a comprehensive software product for quantitative analysis of spectroscopic and
chromatographic data using several state-of-the-art and innovative analysis methods.
PEAXACT contains ready-to-go calibration-free methods as well as calibration methods for
the prediction of features from unknown samples. It offers quick-and-easy access to established methods like Peak Integration or Partial-Least-Squares and is the only software product that provides the innovative Indirect Hard Modeling method.
PEAXACT can be used for laboratory analytics as well as for process analytics and reaction
monitoring either interactively using the user interface or remotely in combination with thirdparty software.
Separation to Related Software Products
PEAXACT strongly focuses on quantitative data evaluation of spectra, i.e. determination of
the quantity of pure component and mixture properties from measured spectra. PEAXACT is
optimized for IR and Raman spectra, but can also be used for other kinds of peak-shaped data
like NMR spectra and chromatograms.
PEAXACT is not designed for the identification of chemical structures of measured compounds.
PEAXACT does not replace measurement software for spectrometers such as OPUS (Bruker
Optics), HoloGrams (Kaiser Optical Systems Inc.), iC-Software-Suite (Mettler Toledo), and
others. In fact, PEAXACT operates on data measured with such software products.
PEAXACT is equipped with several data analysis methods. Some of these methods may also
be distributed with other software tools. However, unique hard modeling methods like Indirect Hard Modeling (IHM) and Hard Modeling Factor Analysis (HMFA) are available in
PEAXACT only.
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Getting Help
User Manual
This user manual documents a certain version of PEAXACT. You can find the version number
and publication date on the title page.
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