Single Click Converting Bitmap to Vector images with with RasterVect

RasterVect is a useful program for those who work with scanned drawings. With this program you can transform raster drawings into vector format. Raster drawing can be imported by scanning original paper drawings. The target vector formats (DXF, WMF, EMF, EPS and AI) are supported by most CAD applications that use vector graphics, such as AutoCAD, Corel Draw and many others.

There are viewing tools like zooming, scrolling and color selection. RasterVect has: TWAIN support for importing from any scanners; the ability to automatically recognize orthogonal and inclined lines, as well as arcs and circles; the ability to maintain the scale of the initial paper drawing. RasterVect can transform a grey and colored images in black-and-white for subsequent recognition; can change a turn of the raster image; can correct union points of lines, arcs and circles. There is also support for lines, arcs and circles alignment.



The list below summarizes the process of transformation of a paper drawing to a CAD drawing using the RasterVect:

• Create a raster file by scanning the paper drawing into RasterVect using a scanner.
• Use RasterVect to convert the raster file into a vector DXF file.
• Import the DXF file into your CAD program and edit the drawing.

Designed to work on all Windows platforms, vectorizer RasterVect saves a lot of time. It's a replacement for traditional tracing and digitizing. It does provide a way to getting a paper drawings into your CAD program for quick and easy editing.

RasterVect : Features

Recognition:

• Four various conversion methods (outline, centerline etc).
• Color and black-and-white images vectorization.
• Orthogonal lines, inclined lines, polygons, arcs and circles recognition .
• ORTHO and SNAP modes.
• Keeping of the initial drawing scale (in english or metric measurement units).
• Batch Mode.
• Recognition Wizard.
• Windows interface and command line interface.

Input/output:

• JPEG (RGB, GrayScale, YCbCr, CMYK, YCbCrK) loading and saving.
• JPEG2000: JP2, J2K and JPC code stream formats (JPEG-2000 Part-1 standard, ISO/IEC 15444-1) loading and saving.
• TIFF (rev.6.0, Packbits, CCITT G.3 and G.4) with RGB, CMYK, B/W, CIELab color spaces loading and saving. Also FAX (CCITT3) format supported for loading.
• PNG with various compression levels loading and saving.
• Compressed and uncompressed BMP in 2,16,256 or 16M colors loading and saving.
• Compressed and uncompressed PCX in 2,16,256 or 16M colors loading and saving.
• DIB, RLE, TGA (TARGA, VDA, ICB, VST, PIX) loading and saving.
• Portable Bitmap PBM, PGM and PPM loading and saving.
• WBMP (Wireless Bitmap) uncompressed and black/white loading and saving.
• GIF in 2,4,8,16,32,64,128 or 256 colors loading and saving.
• EPS, WMF, EMF (input as raster).
• ICO and CUR loading.
• PDF, PS.
• RAW Camera formats (CRW, CR2, NEF, RAW, PEF, RAF, X3F, BAY, ORF, SRF, MRW, DCR) loading.
• DCX (multipage PCX), multipage TIF, animated GIF and AVI loading and saving.
• Own combined (raster+vector) file format RVS loading and saving.
• Saving/loading of specific file format parameters and saving/loading of preview dialogs (e.g. you can set quality of a Jpeg and view immediately the quality loss).
• Progress monitoring with saving and loading.

Input (extra):

• Image properties getting without loading it.
• Image acquisition from TWAIN scanners with full control of the scanner capabilities.
• Image acquisition from WIA scanners and cameras with full control of the scanner (or camera) capabilities.
• Screen capture by various methods (all desktop, rectangle selection, object and active window).
• Video capture from various video sources.

Vector Output:

• DXF (AutoCAD Drawing Interchange Format - various versions).
• EPS (Encapsulated PostScript).
• AI (Adobe Illustrator format).
• WMF (Windows Metafile).
• EMF (Enhanced Metafile).

Other Features

• Image processing and analysis
• Mask operations
• Raster paint operations
• Raster objects operations
• Vectorial objects handling
• Layers operations
• Image rendering
• Printing (and print preview) functions to print single images specifing page alignment or absolute position.

Will it work for you?
The only way to find whether RasterVect will work for you is to try it using one of your own scanned drawings. You can do this using the RasterVect trial version. This allows you to read in your own scanned drawings, and convert them.

Once you can see the conversion results you will be able to answer the question - "Is it quicker to edit a converted drawing in my CAD program or will I be better off redrawing the whole thing from scratch?"
If you are using RasterVect it will usually be quicker to use this vectorizer and edit the results than to digitize, trace or redraw a whole drawing from scratch. However there will be times when the original quality of the scanned drawing makes vectorization and subsequent editing a practical impossiblity. This is true for all raster to vector conversion programs, none of which perform magic.

Automatic vectorizing is not perfect. It does, however, provide a way to getting a paper drawings into your CAD program for quick and easy editing. It will not give you excellent results all the time. But when it does it is a very useful tool to have on your computer.

RasterVect : Supported Platforms
Windows 95 / 98 / NT4 / 2000 / ME / XP / Vista / Windows 7
RasterVect : Minimum Hardware Requirements
Pentium-100. 32 MB RAM

RasterVect : Trial version
RasterVect 16.0 , ~12.7 Mb:
http://www.askedfiles.com/rastervect.zip
http://www.rastervect.com/rastervect.zip

RasterVect : Free Edition
RasterVect Free Edition, ~2.7 Mb:
http://www.askedfiles.com/rastervectfree.zip
http://www.rastervect.com/rastervectfree.zip