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Using Contex Large Format Scanners with CAD and AEC Applications

     The Contex color and monochrome large format scanners offer CAD-Systems users easy access to architectural, civil and mechanical drawings in both color and B/W, bridging the gap between CAD and hard-copy drawing media. Contex large format scanners with the WIDEimage scanning software scans hard-copy originals directly into the workstation. Contex large format scanners contain a reflecting spring-loaded background pressure platen to support scanning of transparent originals. Scanner models with high resolutions and resolution setting in single dpi increments give our users the precision and quality they need to get the job done on time.

• Scan documents, blueprints, sepias and difficult drawings using your favorite scanning and CAD applications.
• Operator panel on Chameleon scanners with one-touch scan system that lets you scan to file, scan to copy and scan to email by pressing a single button.
• Flexible and effective connectivity. Contex offers Firewire, USB and SCSI interface connections.
• Precision tracking system ensures a perfectly straight scanning path for distortion-free scans
• Special scan and copy modes for optimal capture of sepia, blueprint and faded black-white drawings.
• On the Tx scanner models - a unique panchromatic camera line ensures correct color capture when scanning color to B/W.
• Optional WIDEimage software with optimal scanning modes and feature extraction editor.
• Optional JETimage software that turns your scanner and linked printer into a large format copier.
• Chameleon scanners let you start with B/W scanning and upgrade to color when the need arises.
• Chameleon Premier scanners give you monochrome scanning at a very affordable price.

Large-format Scanners for GIS and Mapping Applications

The high level of color and detail precision make Contex large-format scanners the perfect input tool for GIS professionals. Extracting features from maps, e.g., roads, rivers, lakes, buildings and agricultural areas by their color is easy with the Contex large-format color scanner's built-in feature extraction hardware and the WIDEimage software. From a scanned representative sample of a class of maps, in full color RGB, you automatically generate and edit a down-loadable feature table (LUT) in WIDEimage, using it's rich set of easy to use tools. Downloading the feature table to the color scanner triggers automatic, on-the-fly implementation of designed feature extraction, when scanning other maps belonging to the same class, without increasing scanning time.

• Small type, small details and color changes in maps are captured clearly and reliably.
• Chroma Tx and Crystal Tx models with 42-bits color data capture passing only the best 24-bits of color data to the computer thus enhancing image fidelity, and detail.
• High Precision Color technology for perfect color reproduction.
• On the Chroma Tx and Crystal Tx - Unique Panchromatic camera line for correct color capture when scanning color to B/W.
• Precision tracking system ensures a perfectly straight scanning path for distortion-free scans
• Color Feature extraction for specific extracting map items, enhancing clarity and reducing file size.
• Optional WIDEimage software with optimal scanning modes and feature extraction editor.
• Optional JETimage software that turns your GIS & Mapping scanner and linked printer into a large format copy device.
• Flexible and effective connectivity. Contex offers Firewire, USB and SCSI interface connections.
• Chameleon scanners let you start with B/W scanning and upgrade to color when the need arises.
• Chameleon Premier scanners give you monochrome scanning at a very affordable price.