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 ## Plugin description
 
 <!-- Short description of goals of package, with descriptive links to the documentation website --> 
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+Widget to measure distances over images considering current image scale.
         
 A more detailed user documentation can be found on the Ruler Helper documentation page on the Icy website: http://icy.bioimageanalysis.org/plugin/ruler-helper/