Thank you both for your help,
I shall check both choices out.
"Mike" <m.fee@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> In article <OQqUj.121009$Cj7.48357@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Nevermind@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> says...
>> Jeremy Pinwhistle wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> > I'm new to this, so would apprecitate any help please.
>> > I have a continual flow of black line-drawings, site plans, section
>> > drawings
>> > etc. of various sizes, that I would like ot digitise.. archaeological
>> > ones.
>> > I have Adobe Creative Suite 3, Windows XP and a Wacom Tablet and pen,
I
>> > also
>> > have the means to scan the paper drawings onto my PC.
>> > What I would like to know is what the most efficient way of
>> > tracing/vectorising them would be. They consist of images in plan of
>> > stone
>> > walls etc. with perhaps hundreds/thousands of individual stones
>> > outlined.
>> > Also field/site plans etc.
>> > For example in the case of the wall plans, the stones outlined in
>> > black,
>> > with the 'spaces' inbetween say in a pale colour to help in
>> > delineating.
>> > Thanks in advance for any help/advice.
>> > Steve.
>> >
>> >
>>
>> Illustrator's Live Trace function could do what you want.
>>
> Alternately look up 'raster to vector conversion' on google. Wiki has a
> site that compares different free and
> commercial packages.
>
> Mike
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