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Conversion software handles PDF files

Scan2CAD offers CAD users with wide-format scanners or images an affordable yet professional scanning, raster editing and automatic raster to vector conversion capability.

News from Engineeringtalk, 15 November 2007

Scan conversion software is free for 14 days

Product design and automation engineers can now convert scanned drawings into CAD DXF files for free for a limited period using the new Scan2CAD Pro evaluation program.

News from Engineeringtalk, 18 September 2006

Raster to vector conversion brings animals to life

This week saw the unveiling of celebrated American metal sculptor Albert Paley's "Animals Always" sculpture at the St Louis Zoo.

News from Engineeringtalk, 26 May 2006

Paper drawings converted to DXF files

Software for scanning, raster editing and raster to vector conversion of technical drawings and diagrams, schematics, maps, site plans, sketches, artwork and CNC profiles.

News from Engineeringtalk, 21 April 2006

Conversion software supports wide-format scanners

Scan2CAD raster to vector conversion software now includes a dedicated driver to support large format electronics drawing image acquisition directly from Colortrac SmartLF wide format scanners.

News from Engineeringtalk, 6 July 2005

Thresholding command provides cleaner CAD data

Softcover have added thresholding technology to Scan2CAD v7.3, the latest release of their low cost raster to vector converter.

News from Engineeringtalk, 30 June 2005

Xerox recommends raster to vector conversion

Xerox UK is endorsing the Scan2CAD scanning and raster to vector conversion program for use with the new Xerox 6000 series of wide format printers with integrated scanners.

News from Engineeringtalk, 20 April 2005

Large format scanner comes with convertor software

The Colortrac SmartLF is the first large format colour scanner to break the GBP 5000 price barrier in the UK, and comes complete with Scan2CAD Pro raster to vector convertor software.

News from Engineeringtalk, 8 March 2005

Raster editing and drawing tools free of charge

Softcover International is offering Scan2CAD's raster editing and drawing tools free of charge to any PC CAD user who needs to clean up dirty scanned drawings.

News from Engineeringtalk, 21 October 2004

Boeing signs for more seats

The Boeing Company of Huntington Beach, California, has purchased additional licences of Scan2CAD v7 Pro while upgrading existing seats.

News from Engineeringtalk, 18 October 2004

Handy hints aid drawing conversion

Engineers wanting to convert scanned drawings or logos to DXF will find Softcover's free "Scan2CAD hints and tips" a useful aid to good or better conversion results.

News from Engineeringtalk, 8 September 2004

Improved conversion for scanned CAD images

Scan2CAD v7 is an improved version of the low-cost raster to vector convertor which allows design engineers to turn scanned drawings into accurate DXF vector files for editing in any PC CAD program.

News from Engineeringtalk, 16 January 2004

Convertor turns CAD files to PDFs

Plot2PDF converts industry-tandard format CAD drawings into the PDF file format.

News from Engineeringtalk, 24 January 2003

Universal CAD viewer allows temporary annotation

CAD2View Pro allows anyone, including non-CAD staff, to view, redline and print/plot drawings created in any CAD program.

News from Engineeringtalk, 16 May 2002

Faster conversion of scanned drawings to DXF

The low cost software for converting scanned paper drawings to DXF, Scan2CAD Pro, is now up to three times faster at vectorizing and has Command Line operation

News from Engineeringtalk, 19 December 2001

Low cost raster to vector converter still No.1

Scan2CAD Pro v6 is the new release of the highly acclaimed Scan2CAD software, which saves hours of redrawing time by converting scanned drawings to CAD, and the press like it a lot...

News from Engineeringtalk, 22 August 2001

See how to convert scanned drawings to DXF files

Softcover has introduced the free video tutorial to show engineers how to quickly convert scanned drawings (raster files) into a DXF (vector file) format that can be edited in any PC CAD program

News from Engineeringtalk, 19 February 2001

Simple, low cost Revision Control for designers

Softcover has announced the release of Parts and Vendors 4, a new version of the low cost parts list manager and supplier database for design engineers and prototypers.

News from Engineeringtalk, 14 March 2000

Convert scanned engineering drawings to CAD

Scan2CAD, the low-cost raster to vector convertor that turns scanned drawings (raster files) into CAD-editable DXF (vector) files, now offers customised text recognition

News from Engineeringtalk, 17 February 2000

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