Scanning PCB films

There were a couple of programs around a few years ago, I'll dig around on sourceforge, but they allowed you to take original PCB films, scan them in and convert them into gerbers. I'd use a commercial service, but I have so many films, that it will be too cost prohibitive. Curt Dave McGuire wrote: > On Dec 1, 2009, at 9:50 AM, Curt @ Atari Museum wrote: >> Anyone know of programs (Windows, Linux or Mac based) to take >> existing PCB films, scan them in and turn them into Gerbers so >> that long since discontinued PCB's can be reproduced? > > I don't know of an automatic tool, but PCB (http:// > pcb.gpleda.org/, for UNIX platforms) can display a PNG file in the > background of the board layout for tracing purposes. > > This is a great program; it's under very active development by > some very smart people. I've used it for years for both personal > and commercial projects. > > -Dave >