[GreenKeys] WHOA! found huge size engineering drawing westernunion28 electrical sche (scans with MS ICE)

[Javier Albinarrate]

Hi Richard

That is excellent! I was doing essentially the same thing but by hand in 
Photoshop and it is indeed a VERY annoying process, hence I always try to 
avoid it like plague.
I just never thought there could be something automatic, I never made a 
search or anything.

I gave a quick try to MS ICE and it works amazingly well for this.

Thanks!


Javier Albinarrate
LU8AJA



-----Original Message----- 
From: Richard
Sent: Monday, July 08, 2013 4:43 PM
To: Green Keys
Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] WHOA! found huge size engineering drawing 
westernunion28 electrical sche


In article <D9FC91880FDE412FAF03CA9E27B9CEE6 at VALUED20606295>,
    "Richard Knoppow" <1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com> writes:

>      I wonder if Kinko's or Office Depot has the
> wherewithall to scan something like that.  Someone must be
> able to scan blueprints.

I have scanned large format documents by simply using a flatbed
scanner @ 600dpi to get overlapping coverage of all the pieces.  Then
I fed into Microsoft ICE and it stitched them together in a second or
two and worked great.

<http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/groups/ivm/ice/>

I usually do scanning at work using an 11x17" flatbed scanner/printer/copier
and it works great for most drawings in manuals I scan.  For oversize
items I scan in 11x17 chunks that overlap and then stitch.  Works great.

For blueprints, I scan to "black and white" to get a higher contrast
scan.  (The "blue" in blueprints has to do with the printing process,
not an intrinsic desire to have blue ink present.)  If 600 dpi is too
low to resolve details, then you might try a specialty shop.  The only
problems I've had with 600dpi has been crappy originals, not the scan
density.  600dpi is enough to resolve the individual half-tone dots in
most half-tone printing.
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