Fig. 1.1. Hardware-and-software complexes for large size images input DISKAN-M packaged with: portable magneto-electric digitizer, flatbed scanner, format A4 and personal computer
Main Sector of relevance\IRC classification 5. Electronics, IT and Telecommunication
5.6 Set of hardware-and-software complexes for large size images input DISKAN, DISKAN-M
Developers’ contact information
State Scientific Institution “The United Institute of Informatics Problems of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus”
6 Surganova Str., 220012 Minsk
Summary
Hardware-and-software complexes DISKAN, DISKAN-M have been developed for piece-by-piece scanning of large size images followed by automatic clip in one raster file, and are in practice cheap analogues of large-format roll and drum scanners. Significant advantage of the complexes in comparison with large-format scanners is their low costs, a possibility of vision tracking of scanner guidance on the following part of an image, automatic clip of scanned image fragments, high optical resolution scanning, and a possibility to input data in vector format, a possibility of image scanning, bring on a hard base surface.
Description
Hardware-and-software complexes DISKAN, DISKAN-M have been
developed for piece-by-piece scanning followed by automatic clip in one raster
file (in practice the complexes are cheap analogues of large-format roll and
drum scanners). Significant advantage of the complexes in comparison with
large-format scanners is their low costs, a possibility of vision tracking of
scanner guidance on the following part of an image, automatic clip of scanned
image fragments, high optical resolution scanning, and a possibility to input
data in vector format, a possibility of image scanning, brought on a hard base
surface.
Application area:
- creation of digital maps and location plans;
- conversion of document of engineering design department, scientific research
and design institutions and other enterprises and organizations which create
and store engineering documentation archives in a digital form;
- conversion of accumulated in CIS countries city maps archives and other
localities, mapped at present on cardboard and metallic storage mediums of
600x600 mm which are not scanned by large-format roll scanners;
- in cadastral systems (city, land cadastre and others).
Technical characteristics:
| Size of scanned document | Not limited |
| Document types | Coloured, gray-scale, black-and-white |
| Document media type | Paper, cardboard, plywood, aluminium |
| Document thickness | Up to 7 mm |
| Scanning device | Small-format flatbed scanner for A4, A4+ formats |
| Digitizer | Stationary or portable (sectional) (A0, A1) |
Minimal requirements to computer |
Pentium-4, 256Mb RAM, 4Gb HDD, Win 98 |
Technology type
Technical advantages and economic benefits
Hardware-software complexes for large size images input DISKAN in
comparison with other analogous devises (large-format roll and drum scanners)
have the following advantages:
- low costs;
- possibility to scan unlimited size images;
- possibility to scan images brought on a hard base surface (including, for
example, topographic plans brought on metallic base surface) up to 7 mm
thick;
- automatic clip of scanned image fragments, vision tracking of scanner
guidance on the following part of the image;
- clip accuracy control;
- high optical resolution of scanning (depends on packaged scanner index mark)
usually no less than 1200 dpi;
- output image format is BMP, JPEG or TIFF;
- possibility of data input in vector format.
Technology differentiation and uniqueness
No analogous devices in CIS countries.
Context in which technology was identified
International Expositions Tibo 2006, Tibo 2007, Milex 2007, PTS 2007.
Technological keywords
Fragment-by-fragment input, scanning, large-format scanning system
Development Stage
Intellectual property rights
Range of applications
Electronics, information technologies and telecommunication
Classifier Used at the EU Innovation Relay Centres
Preferable Regions
Practical experience
Experience of large-format scanning system engineering is at least 7 years
Environmental impact
None
Type of collaboration sought
Terms and restrictions
— None
Available technical assistance