Scan conversion software is free for 14 days
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Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team
Sep 18, 2006
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.
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.
Softcover International, the publisher of Scan2CAD raster to vector conversion software, has released a 14-day full-working trial of their industry leading convertor.
Softcover's new trial program gives engineers and mechanical design professionals unrestricted access to the full power of Scan2CAD Pro for the conversion of scanned drawings, schematics, sketches etc, into DXF files for editing in CAD.
At the end of the 14-day trial period Scan2CAD Pro's vector save will be disabled.
However, Scan2CAD Pro's powerful raster editing tools will remain available to the user.
The Scan2CAD trial will continue to work as a free, fully working raster editor for tidying-up scanned drawings.
The new Scan2CAD Pro trial program can be downloaded the Softcover website.
The Scan2CAD Pro trial loads all popular raster file formats, like BMP, TIF, PNG, etc, and will convert these to DXF which can be opened and edited in any PC CAD program, like AutoCAD, etc There are no restrictions on the size of the drawings that the Scan2CAD trial will open and convert.
It will convert drawings up to A0-size and larger into DXF for editing in any PC CAD, CNC, GIS or mapping program.
The Scan2CAD Pro trial will convert as many drawings during the evaluation period as the user can process.
Drawings can be converted singly or en masse using Scan2CAD's batch facility for automated raster editing and or vectorisation of monochrome (black and white), greyscale and colour raster images.
The Scan2CAD Pro trial will save monochrome or colour DXF files with or without OCR text recognition.
Users wanting to test Scan2CAD Pro's OCR can even train an OCR neural net to extend text recognition to nonstandard fonts.
At the end of the 14-day trial period Scan2CAD's vector save, batch processing, command line and OCR font training will be disabled.
However, the expired trial program will continue to work as a free raster editor.
The trial program will continue to load raster files or scan from scanners which support TWAIN-compliance, including colourtrac, Contex and Graphtec wide format scanners.
Useful raster editing tools, like auto-rotate, despeckle, thresholding, smooth lines, enter raster text, etc, allow users tidy up and enhance scanned CAD images for free.
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