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Help!, OCR or Tech equivilant!!

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by patracy_uk

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Not greatly qualified in this but got dumped with the question, is there an equivilant of ocr that recognises blue prints or tech drawings, street maps etc
got loads of data to transfer to discs (from paperwork)
but it must be accessable and amendable
Tia Pete

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by jardinier

I've never had cause to do it, but I am pretty sure that Adobe Acrobat would produced a pdf file of the document.

by andrew dhingra-taylor

Many CAD pacages such as Minicad and Turbocad will create a working drawing from an image file. All you need to do is to scan the original drawings using a flatbed scanner and TRACE the image using the CAD program.

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