Service of scanning drawings
One of the most popular services offered by Redocs Company is scanning of drawings. Drawings – projects, schemes, plans, schedules, are usually done on the sheets of paper of large format. Large-format scanning of drawings is made using professional equipment – large-format pass-through scanners that allow scanning drawings of up to 913 mm in width, up to 15 m in length and a thickness of 13 mm. Our professional equipment are large-format scanners Contex, which have already have a great reputation around the world as the most suitable type of equipment for such tasks. Specialized software enables to convert the original image with maximum accuracy. All this helps to ensure high quality and accuracy of scanning large-format drawings.
We also offer a service during a scanning of drawings to improve the quality of the scanned materials, by subjecting it to the cleaning, adjusting, editing and removing any background and enhancing the image contrast.
Black-and-white scanning of A0 drawing takes only 10 seconds, and for a color drawing, depending on the complexity it can take up to 3 minutes. The process of pulling the material through a scanner imposes certain restrictions on the scanned materials: dilapidated drawings of thin paper should be scanned with extreme caution — pulling mechanism can tear it. Also, it’s not allowed to scan transparent materials due to the reflective technology used in scanners.
In cases when you need to scan the drawings of custom sizes, which are greater than 913 mm in width, the original is folded along the length, gets scanned, and then is compiled together using a graphics editor.
When scanning old dilapidated documents, they should be pre-packaged in special transparent plastic bags.
Paper documents converted into electronic format are saved in JPEG or TIF formats, can be stored on electronic media, such as CDs and DVDs or USB-flash drives, etc.
For companies with large volumes of technical documentation, we will arrange an on-site service and will complete scanning of drawings of A3, A2, A1, and other formats on the customer’s premises, as well as will assist in creating an electronic archive of such documents.
The pricing for scanning of drawings A3, A4, which are included in design data packages are higher than scanning of individual documents with the same format, because to maintain consistency, their processing is also performed on the large-format equipment, which is used to scan drawings of A2, A1 and other large formats. When we take an order for a large amount of drawings and other project documentation, our company estimates the cost of work based on scanning drawings A1, and for that purpose the total number of documents is expressed in number of sheets in this format. The price of scanning drawings also depends on such factors as the location of the scanning process, the condition of original documents and the scan mode (color, black and white, gray).
We guarantee high-quality digital copies with the ability of transferring them back on paper.