You should also consider cost and make every effort to evaluate the software before you buy it to make sure that it will work with your drawings. Checklist Cost Try before you buy Checklist Most affordable raster to vector convertors are entry-level versions of more expensive products and are limited in some way, usually by the size of the drawings they will convert. Scan2CAD Pro has no restriction on the paper size of the drawing or the size of the file it converts. During this time we have made a vigorous comparison of Scan2CAD Pro to all known competitors. Technically, Scan2CAD Pro s vectorization routines are very advanced and stand comparison with the very best.
Some products are mere tracing programs.
At first glance their results look good but if you examine the DXF files they create you find they are made up of lots of short lines, often disguised as polylines. This makes editing the DXF file in your CAD program difficult or impossible. Pro minimizes the number of lines it creates. Its Gap Jumping command joins broken lines into one continuous line. Some programs attempt to smooth the many lines they create into fewer lines.