- From: Tobias Reif <tobiasreif@pinkjuice.com>
- Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2001 18:12:45 +0200
- To: www-svg@w3.org
Vincent(if you are subscribed now),
(sorry Dean, you get this twice; the reply address was yours)
> I have recently started to look at converting scanned images of line
> drawings (such as blueprints) into an editable format.
> Is there any tools
> that can read in a gif or jpg and recognize that lines and produce an
> SVG?
> Or do I have to write one myself? Will such a tool be useful enough
to > be worth creating?
There are some tools which generate SVG vectors more or less resembling
a input raster image:
http://www.padc.mmpc.is.tsukuba.ac.jp/member/morik/fdssvg/
http://www.celinea.com/
and probably some more.
While the above work well for certain tasks, I sometimes would like to
get single paths for lines, not a path around the edges of a line.
So if a line of 1 mm is scanned, and then traced, the "converter" or
tracer could either
1. output one long closed path outlining the "line" (which is actually a
colored area of non-zero width). That's what all tools I know of do.
2. (maybe as an option) find the path that's always in the middle of the
line.
Does someone know of tools supporting the second option for line art?
I heard from an animator that some tool named "streamline" tries to do
that, but generally fails.
Tobi
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Received on Thursday, 6 September 2001 12:14:06 UTC