System and method for well log analysis

A system comprising:

• a scanner to scan a printed raster image of a printed well log, the printed well log including one or more traces;
• and
• a computation system in communication with the scanner to receive the raster image, the computational system comprising:
• a pattern recognition analyzer to:
• determine the number of traces in the raster image and disambiguating the traces when there are multiple traces;
• determine pattern data from at least one trace from the raster image;
• and
• a structure analyzer to determine stratigraphic structure data based on the pattern data, the stratigraphic structure data including material type.

A method of analyzing a well log, the method comprising:

• imaging a physical printed well log with a scanner to form a well log image stored in an image format, the well log including one or more trace lines;
• processing the well log image with a trace cleaning engine;
• performing pattern recognition on the cleaned well log image in the image format to determine pattern data;
• and
• determine stratigraphic structure data based on the pattern data, the stratigraphic structure data including material type.