Disk Drive Documents - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

8 Jun 1999

...
 But, and this applies to text as well, once you've
printed them out and 
scanned them back in again, you've lost that structure. The scanner 
produces a bitmap (probably a slightly distorted bitmap as noting is 
perfect). It is _very_ difficult to automatically recover that structure 
(would you like to write a program that analyses a bitmap and finds 
component symbols in it?) 
Such programs do exist, however.  Most of the fancy electronics-oriented
CAD packages have "schematic capture" modules.  And, of course, such
packages run into the many kilobucks.

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