Scan2CAD
Developer(s)Avia Systems
Initial releaseApril 1993 (1993-04)
Stable release
10.4.18 / 11 September 2023 (2023-09-11)
Written inC and C++
Operating systemMicrosoft Windows, macOS (since v10.0.0)
Available inMultilingual
TypeComputer-aided design
LicenseProprietary
Websitewww.scan2cad.com

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.[1]

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[2] 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,[3][4] Canon[5] and Fuji Xerox.[6]

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.[7]

Version number Code name Initial release date Mathematician who inspired code name
10.0 Euclid July 17, 2018 Eukleides of Alexandria
10.1 Galois March 1, 2019 Évariste Galois
10.2 Lovelace November 12, 2019 Ada Lovelace
10.3 Cantor May 25, 2020 Georg Cantor
10.4 Gauss October 8, 2020 Carl Friedrich Gauss

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.

MethodologyProcess
Vectorization/Image tracingConversion
Artificial neural networksConversion
Object recognitionConversion
Optical Character Recognition (OCR)Conversion
Adaptive Classifier or CubeConversion
Gaussian functionRaster Processing
ThresholdingRaster Processing
Edge detection/Edge followingRaster Processing
Canny edge detectionRaster Processing
Blob detectionRaster Processing
Image segmentationRaster Processing
Image thinning/Image erosionRaster Processing

References

  1. ↑ "Raster to Vector & PDF to Vector Converter Scan2CAD Acquired By AVIA".
  2. ↑ "Scan2CAD used by UNICEF in Afghanistan for Hospital Renovation".
  3. ↑ "HP DesignJet – third-party solutions".
  4. ↑ "HP T2300 Specifications".
  5. ↑ "Canon recommended CAD / GIS Solutions".
  6. ↑ "Wide Format Network TWAIN Source Ver. 1.3.3".
  7. ↑ Luke (2019-11-12). "Behind The Scenes | Scan2CAD's Product Names Explained". Scan2CAD. Retrieved 2019-11-25.
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