scanned image - vector?

Dear all,

Does anyone have any clues how to vectorise a scanned image?

cheers

Ian

 

Ian ...

Either you digitise manually over the raster data, or purchase some
raster-to-vector conversion software.

While the latter approach sounds labour-saving, in practise (unless the
raster data is exceptionally clear) the software requires significant human
guidance when it comes to resolving ambiguous crossings, gaps, and
overshoots.

 

Ian,

http://www.algolab.com I downloaded a trial version and it worked fine
for the project that I used it on.

Andrew Grove

 

Hi Ian

Find a Free version of Wintopo on:
http://www.wburrows.demon.co.uk/softsoft/

It can only read BMP files, and export one color vector files (dxf)
but it works just fine.

You can also find the Pro version of Wintopo, and that gives you
(that's what they say, I haven't checked though) the ability to load
tiff and jpeg files and export to colour vectors.

All

 

can I ask why vectorise?
Why not just make a hybrid file.

 

thanks for all your help guys, I will try out the various pieces of
software.
A work colleague also put me on to a utility called "scan2cad"
(www.softcover.com) which also looks interesting.

cheers

Ian