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To learn Scan2CAD once you've downloaded it, see the "How to use Scan2CAD" section of Scan2CAD's Help and try the video tutorials.

In order to show the Pro features, the Evaluation version  does a few more things than the Regular version:

• Raster file saving functions - NO

• Vector file saving functions - Saves ninth of vectorized area only

• HPGL import - NO

• Detect color edges - YES

• Draw TrueType raster text - YES, using any font

• Scan a drawing too large to fit on your scanner, tile it, reassemble it in Scan2CAD - YES

• Paste raster images into Scan2CAD from other applications - YES

• Color palette manipulation features - YES

• Convert color raster images to color DXF - YES

• Convert color raster images to mono DXF - YES

• Batch conversion - Saves ninth of vectorized area only

• Font training - Restricted load and save options

What's the difference between the Pro and Regular versions?

In addition to the features contained in the Regular version, the Pro version also includes:

• HPGL import 
• Detect color edges
• Draw TrueType raster text using any font
• Scan a drawing too large to fit on your scanner, tile it, reassemble it in Scan2CAD
• Paste raster images into Scan2CAD from other applications 
• Color palette manipulation features
• Convert color raster images to color DXF
• Batch conversions 
• Font training

What's new in Scan2CAD Pro v6:

• Grayscale and Color support - Supports 24, 8, 4, and 1 bit (2 color or Black & White) color images.  
• "Color Aware" throughout - Makes intelligent use of color in both its raster and vector editing.  SnapTidy tools can be restricted to work with one vector color only.
• TWAIN (Acquire) support - All scanning, any size, can be done from inside Scan2CAD Pro where the scanner is a TWAIN compliant device.
• Tiling - Large drawings can be acquired as "tiles" using desktop scanners.  Tiles can be moved, merged and assembled within Scan2CAD Pro.  An assembled image can be vectorized and saved to size and scale of paper original.
• Raster files can be imported in three different ways:

1. By Load (as before)
2. By Acquire (scanning inside Scan2CAD Pro)
3. By Cut & Paste from other applications

• JPEG and GIF raster files now supported (as well as PCX, BMP, IMG and TIF)
• Interface - User friendly Tooltips on icons.  New Graphic cursor changes to reflect the action the user is doing.
• Gap Jumping - This will join broken lines which travel in the same direction.  
• Thicken Pixel - This will fill holed or dithered lines by filling them with the appropriate color pixels.
• Rubber-sheeting - This allows the user to warp or stretch an image in a defined direction around control points.
• Crop - This saves only the image within a user-defined rectangle, erasing everything outside the rectangle.
• TrueType font support
• And much more!

System Requirements

The system requirements for Scan2CAD are a Pentium PC running Windows '95, '98, ME, NT or 2000.  Users are advised to do this on a reasonably fast PC. For example, it takes about 40 minutes to train a neural network to recognize 68 characters (a-z, A-Z, 0-9) using a training set containing three examples of each character (i.e.. 204 examples) on a 200MHz Pentium PC.