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News Release from: Cad-Capture | Subject: PDF conversion
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 28 January 2008
Move to PDFs makes sense
Amercare decided that its office move was an ideal opportunity to improve the management of its hard copy drawing archive by getting it scanned to PDF.
Cad-Capture has scanned Amercare's complete large format engineering drawing archive Over the years, Amercare has grown a very successful team of people that have worked in design, development, manufacture and marketing all from the one site in Thame, Oxfordshire
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 1 Feb 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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This site has now become too small for Amercare's expanding business so the company is moving to new premises in order that its growth can continue.
During the process of planning the move, Amercare decided that this was an ideal opportunity to improve the management of its hard copy drawing archive by getting it scanned to PDF (Portable Document Format).
The original drawings were hung in cabinets and contained much of the company's intellectual property and value.
These cabinets would have been difficult to move and bulky to store.
The company felt that supporting this hard copy archive would be an unnecessary expense to propagate an inefficient and outdated way of working.
Having the drawings as PDF files has allowed the company to preserve the information in a nondegradable format.
It will facilitate improved management of the drawings including version control, distribution and disaster recovery.
It will also save the costs associated with removal and space in the new building.
The PDF renditions of the drawings were indexed using the drawing number, sheet number and revision.
This indexing will allow the drawings to be found and retrieved quickly and easily from Amercare's electronic drawing store.
Amercare was very pleased with Cad-Capture's service and the deliverable of the scanning project.
When viewing the PDF files, Michael Bourne, who is responsible for drawing archive at Amercare, said: "The images are brilliant".
"Seeing them makes me wonder why we did not do this years ago".
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