RasterVect 14.7.28

RasterVect 14.7.28 is a program which allows you to edit a raster file in your CAD program, you first have to convert it to a vector file. RasterVect does just that, transforming paper drawings or raster images into a vector format. Raster images can be imported by scanning original paper drawings. There is TWAIN and WIA support for importing from all scanners. The target vector formats (DXF, WMF, EMF, EPS and AI) are supported by most CAD applications that use vector graphics, such as Adobe Illustrator, Corel Draw, AutoCAD. There are viewing tools like zooming, scrolling and color selection.

This tool recognizes orthogonal and inclined lines, arcs and circles. It has four various conversion methods (centerlines, outlines etc); has modes ORTHO, SNAP and OSNAP; forms correct corners at crossing lines, arcs and circles; Keeps scale of an initial drawing; Can correct a turn angle of an initial raster drawing; Has despeckle filters; Can recognize color images or transform their to black-and-white for the subsequent recognition; Has Batch Mode and Macros; Has vector and raster editing features; Supports various raster formats, such as BMP, GIF, TIFF, JPEG, PNG, and so on; has own combined (raster+vector) format.

Designed to work on all Windows platforms, RasterVect saves a lot of time. Its 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.

Instruction to convert a paper drawing to a CAD drawing using a raster to vector converter:

1. Create a raster file by scanning the paper drawing into RasterVect using a scanner.
2. Use RasterVect to convert the raster file into a vector file.
3. Import the vector file into your CAD program.
4. Edit the drawing in your CAD program.

Major Features:

1. Recognition:
   •  Four various conversion methods (outline, centerline etc).
   •  Color and blackandwhite 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.
2. Input/output:
   •  JPEG (RGB, GrayScale, YCbCr, CMYK, YCbCrK) loading and saving.
   •  JPEG2000: JP2, J2K and JPC code stream formats (JPEG2000 Part1 standard, ISO/IEC 154441) 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 (saving only).
   •  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.
3. 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.
4. Vector Output:
   •  DXF (AutoCAD Drawing Interchange Format  various versions).
   •  EPS (Encapsulated PostScript).
   •  AI (Adobe Illustrator format).
   •  WMF (Windows Metafile).
   •  EMF (Enhanced Metafile).
5. Image processing and analysis:
   •  Decreasing and increasing of raster lines thickness.
   •  Image and paper resizing.
   •  Image rotation any angle by various methods.
   •  Image deskew by various methods.
   •  Horizontal and vertical flip.
   •  Image invert conversion.
   •  Selected region cropping.
   •  Conversion to gray scale and negative.
   •  Conversions of true color to black/white images with ordered or threshold dithering and with FloydSteinberg algorithm.
   •  Color to other color replacing .
   •  Median cut and Neural network color quantizers, for fast and accurate color reduction.
   •  Reduction to any number of colors (with colormap output).
   •  HSV and RGB channels separations.
   •  Color equalization.
   •  Regulation of contrast, HSL, HSV/ HSB and RGB components.
   •  Copying, cut and paste into a new or existing window of all or part of the image.
   •  Application effects to the selected zones (also irregular).
   •  Raster filters: median, smoothing, average, despeckle and so on.
   •  Holes removing.
   •  Application of 3x3 filters.
   •  Fast Fourier Transformation (FFT) with preview.
   •  Maximum (dilation), Minimum (erosion), Opening and Closing filters with preview.
   •  Picture filters (wallis, soften, sharpen, color emboss, gaussian blur, morph, antialias, remove red eyes, auto equalize and user filters).
   •  Contour filters (edge detect, find edges and trace).
   •  50+ various art, distortion and noise raster effects.
   •  Preview of all the effects in a single dialog, with 8 preset filters and save/load filters from file.
   •  Progress monitoring for image processing tasks.
   •  Multilevel Undo/Redo for raster editing.
   •  Macro commands (in batch process also).
6. Mask operations:
   •  Color contour of a selected region (polygonal, irregular, circular and rectangular).
   •  Magic wand selection (inclusive, exclusive and global).
   •  Multiple selections (normal, additive and subtractive modes).
   •  Invert conversion and expansion selected region.
   •  Multi polygonal regions.
7. Raster paint operations:
   •  Various paint tools (sketch, line, ellipse, curve, rectangle, round rectangle, flood fill, spray, eraser and eyedropper).
   •  Various pen styles (solid, clear, dash, dot, dashdot and dashdotdot).
   •  Various brush styles (solid, clear, cross, diagonal cross, bdiagonal, fdiagonal, vertical and horizontal).
   •  Choice of pen and brush colors.
8. Raster objects operations:
   •  Create object from mask selection.
   •  Operation with Clipboard (cut, copy and paste objects).
   •  Combination objects with background.
   •  Deselection and deleting of objects.
   •  Horizontal and vertical flip.
   •  Objects rotation any angle.
   •  Objects move and copying.
   •  Undo for objects editing.
9. Vectorial objects handling:
   •  Move, copying (including array), turning, mirroring, erasing and scaling of single or multiple vectorial objects.
   •  Creation and editing of lines, rectangles, circles, arcs, polylines, polygons and text.
   •  Polylines exploding.
   •  AutoCAD style grips for quick and easy vectors editing.
   •  Ortho, Snap and Object Snap modes.
   •  Automatic Object Snap and Bring to Snap possibilities.
   •  Measuring vector tools (distance, list).
   •  Multiple undo and redo for vector editing.
10. Layers operations:
    •  Support for multiple layers with separated transparency.
    •  Select from 37 layer operations (blend modes).
    •  Moveable and resizeable layers.
    •  Magnify layers (rectangle or like a lens/glass).
11. Image rendering:
    •  Three mode of rendering: Raster, Vector and combined (Vector above Raster).
    •  Real time Zoomin and Zoomout (by percentage, zoom in rectangular area or by one mouse click). Zoomprevious is also available.
    •  Real time Pan (click and drag the image with mouse).
    •  Scrollbar in two dimensions for the fast exploration of the image.

Requirements:

• Windows 95 / 98 / NT4 / 2000 / ME / XP
• Pentium-100.
• 32 MB RAM