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About
For the last 20 years Softcover International Ltd has variously published, sold, supported, documented, developed and written about CAD software, large format scanners and raster to vector conversion software.
Selling and supporting raster to vector conversion software is a constant exercise in education. People are trained to be engineers, to be architects, to use CAD software. But they are not often taught about raster images or how to scan a drawing. This can lead to disastrous raster to vector conversion results.
We are often reminded of the excellent film Educating Rita. Rita is a hairdresser. A lady with unfortunate looks comes into the salon, thrusts a photograph of Princess Diana into Rita's hands, and says "I want to look like that".
Many peoples' expectations of raster to vector conversion are the same. They expect to automatically produce a CAD-perfect drawing from a poor quality - sometimes completely illegible - raster image.
This site aims to provide helpful information about scanning, raster images and raster to vector conversion so that those of you who need to do conversions will have the best possible chance of success.
Softcover International Limited also publishes the Scanners4CAD large format scanner news and views online magazine.
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