Scan2CAD is a commercial raster-to-vector and vector-to-vector conversion and editing computer-aided design software application which is developed and maintained in the UK by Avia Systems.

History

Scan2CAD's first version was released in April 1993. The publishing company was Softcover International. This company continued to publish the software until 2010 when Avia Systems acquired the software.

The development team has continued to be the same throughout the full lifetime of the software.

Scan2CAD is now used across the world by a very wide variety of users ranging from government and large industrial organisations to smaller individual firms. It has been translated to localised language versions including Polish, Italian, French and Japanese. The Scan2CAD software is recommended by leading imaging hardware companies such as HP, Canon and Fuji Xerox.

Code Names

From version 10.0 Scan2CAD's major version releases use code names that reference great mathematicians.

It was described that these code names are intended to "take inspiration" from the stories of these mathematicians. +Version numberCode nameInitial release date Mathematician who inspired code name10.0EuclidJuly 17, 2018Eukleides of Alexandria10.1GaloisMarch 1, 2019Évariste Galois10.2LovelaceNovember 12, 2019Ada Lovelace10.3CantorMay 25, 2020Georg Cantor10.4GaussOctober 8, 2020Carl Friedrich Gauss10.5HilbertJune 26, 2024David Hilbert

Supported file types

Below lists all types of the file supported by Scan2CAD starting from version 8.

Raster file types: BMP, PCX, IMG, TIFF, CALS, JPEG, JPEG2K, GIF, PNG, CIT, PDF

Vector file types: DXF, DWG, SVG, HPGL, WMF, EMF, TXF, PDF (vector graphics)

Technologies used A non-exhaustive list of the technologies used by Scan2CAD in the raster-to-vector and vector-to-vector conversion process.

Methodology Process Vectorization/Image tracing Conversion Artificial neural networks Conversion Object recognition Conversion Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Conversion Adaptive Classifier or Cube Conversion Gaussian function Raster Processing Thresholding Raster Processing Edge detection/Edge following Raster Processing Canny edge detection Raster Processing Blob detection Raster Processing Image segmentation Raster Processing Image thinning/Image erosion Raster Processing

External links

Official Scan2CAD YouTube channel

References