Cad Conversion and Large Format Scanning can Modernize and Restore Your Paper Engineering Drawings. by New York Document Scanning
There are more than 2 billion engineering drawings currently in use. New designs are based on old drawings and your intellectual property needs to be protected against damage or loss.
Film and drawings can be protected from deterioration with Document conversion technology. The documents can be scanned and the images files stored to electronic format. The image files can be written to CD/DVD and the back-up discs can be stored both on and off-site. Copies can be backed-up to your server and stored on-line through web based storage.
Large Format Scanning
Many companies store their blueprints and drawings in tubes and flat files or worse the drawings are folded and packed into cabinets. Large Format Scanning is the cheapest method to convert your drawings to electronic format. Once the files are scanned a searchable database can be created and the database can be imported into a document management. This saves hours of wasted time searching for and retrieving documents. In addition to the savings in document retrieval costs, the original drawings can be put into storage to protect them from additional wear & tear and damage.
Microfilm
The United States government has over 16,000 rolls of engineering drawings of aircraft and other aviation-related equipment to 35mm microfilm. There are 5,000 reels of captured German & Japanese technical documents stored to microfilm containing documents pertaining to aircraft and aeronautical subjects, including aircraft manuals, flight test reports, and engineering studies of aircraft.
Document Scanning has made microfilm obsolete. Microfilm and Microfiche storage requires that you search manually with a microfilm reader the document that is required and print it with a microfilm reader.
Cad Conversion
The next step in converting your blueprints, drawings and maps to digital format is paper to cad conversion. A large format scanner outputs a raster file. In order for the file to be edited, it needs to be converted from raster to vector format. Software conversion is inaccurate and many hours of additional work will be required to clean up the drawing and make it useable. The most reliable method to convert your drawing to cad perfect format is manually trace or draft the raster image to cad. This can be done quite inexpensively nowadays thanks to the internet. Your files can be outsourced offshore at low rates and returned to you via email or ftp.
About the author
New York Document Scanning, a global outsourcing company, is headquartered in New York, NY with offices in Kolkata, India and provides scanning services and data entry at some of the best prices found anywhere. Get free quotes for all your document scanning needs. Visit us at http://www.new-york-document-scanning.com
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