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 Screenshot of Scan2CAD 10.0.10 on MacOS | |
| Developer(s) | Avia Systems |
|---|---|
| Initial release | April 1993 |
| Stable release | 10.5.0 / 26 June 2024 |
| Written in | C and C++ |
| Operating system | Microsoft Windows, macOS (since v10.0.0) |
| Available in | Multilingual |
| Type | Computer-aided design |
| License | Proprietary |
| Website | www |
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.
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]
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 |
| 10.5 | Hilbert | June 26, 2024 | David Hilbert |
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)
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 |
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