Here is a link
http://www.hutson.co.nz/ it's a PCB software (good price)
you can import as a .BMP the trace over it.
regards
victor
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Subject: [Homebrew_PCBs] Digest Number 1187
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> 1. Re: Image to Raster, it was supposed to be
> From: "Stefan Trethan" <stefan_trethan@...>
> 2. Re: Image to Raster, it was supposed to be
> From: cristian <cristianbip@...>
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> Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 19:50:15 +0200
> From: "Stefan Trethan" <stefan_trethan@...>
> Subject: Re: Image to Raster, it was supposed to be
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> On Sat, 22 Oct 2005 16:52:02 +0200, mikezcnc <eemikez@...> wrote:
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> >
> > and then Raster should to some automatic magic to make the lines
> > straight and beautiful.
> > Anyone knows how to train a hamster in using a Photoshop?
> > I'll give a good analogy to OCR and scan. If you scan a page it will
> > scan not only text but many other dots and specs present on that page.
> > OCR will take that page with many imperfections on it and output a
> > text file as clean as the blank page in your printer
> > Mike
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> I had moderate success with the following:
> Scan it, very well, as line art ad carefully set the treshold.
> (Alternatively you may scan as image and convert to 2-color in your
> software.)
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> Now, increase color depth again in your software, and blur the image. This
> takes out many of the scanning artefacts ("stubble"), if you convert to
> 2-color again and set the threshold, once more, very carefully. I would
> expect there's software specifically for removing "stubble" (the 1-pixel
> wide uncertanity around the contour).
>
> This does work, but not too well, and a hamster can't be trained to do it.
> Batch processing might be set up but without user intervention i think it
> unlikely to work.
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> I have been paid in the past to convert pictures to a layout format
> (gerber output in the end), so there is no quick and easy way. What i
> usually do is import the "picture" as a unused layer for a ackground in my
> software.
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> ST
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> Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 07:15:55 +0300
> From: cristian <cristianbip@...>
> Subject: Re: Image to Raster, it was supposed to be
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> >
> >I have been paid in the past to convert pictures to a layout format
> >(gerber output in the end), so there is no quick and easy way.
>
> Is it!! Try PlatinCNC from www.platincnc.com which is able to convert
> scanned images to Gerber.
>
> Also you can use the SprintLayout from Abacom www.abacom-online.de to
> draw over the scanned image.
> Cristian
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