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Extracting geometry from jpeg?


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I am running full AutoCAD 2004 (shows as Mechanical Desktop 2004 DX release 8.0.0 in about window) and have a question regarding jpegs. My boss just gave me a jpeg of our new logo which includes a graphic and a couple lines of text (company name) in what appears to be a custom font (or it could just be a weird one I don't know). He (and therefore I) am wondering if there is any way to extract the outlines of the text and logo graphic from the jpeg. I looked around the installed F1 help, as well as this site and others and can't find what I'm looking for. I've thought of just zooming way in and drawing p-lines freestyle around the geometry, but that won't be exact and will also take a very long time. Does anyone know a quick and dirty way to extract the geometry that I'm missing here? Thanks for the help.

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Not in Autocad. There are raster to vector conversion programs available and you can also use Adobe Illustrator to do this. I've never been satisfied with the results obtained from any of these programs though. You always end up having to do a lot of clean up work after converting. My best advice would be to trace over the image in Autocad. If it's just a logo, or some text, then it won't matter if your lines are precise or not.

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Yeah, I pretty much came to the same conclusion. I found a pdf to dxf translating program and downloaded a free trial last night. I just finished trying it out this morning and the results were...less than desirable. Oh well, at least everything's slow here so I have the time to do some tracing! Thanks for the help.

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