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Overview - Large Format Drawing Scanning
Scanning of large format drawings/documentation from A3 to A0
plus size. Both colour and monochrome drawing scanning services are available.
Services are available both on-site and off-site. Typically 2,500 A0 monochrome drawing scans can be scanned
and stored on just one 650Mb CD ROM. Therefore many drawing cabinets, that
are generally expensive to store and locate can be squeezed down to a few CD
ROMS.
We can generally offer this drawing scanning service on-site as well as
off-site, especially as the transport of drawings can be costly and very
inconvenient. Large format drawing scanning is normally done
at 200dpi, though depending on the exact requirement this can be increased to
400dpi.
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Typical Applications for Large
Format Drawing Scanning
Monochrome engineering drawings
Colour graphics/maps
Estates drawings (plans, services layouts
etc)
Utility information (mains, water, gas maps)
Railways and rolling stock
Council planning applications
Conversion to CAD formats (using
vectorisation
service)
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Technical Information
Scanned information can be supplied in many different
formats. Standard formats are as follows:
TIFF (Tagged Image
File Format) the most standard raster format
PDF (Portable Data
Format), which can be a simple raster scan or can include OCR
information, for cutting and pasting to other applications
GIF, generally used
for internet applications
JPEG for
colour images Scans and index information can
be returned on CD ROM complete with search, view, print software
which can be
easily configured for network access as well as local CD based access,
alternatively the data can be loaded onto the DDMS
Browser document management system
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