Is it possible to scan a drawing and convert it to a .dwg?

[Steve Dave]

Well, our server may be lost for good, our back up system was not functioning correctly and we are unable to retrieve the info from the tapes.

If our hard drive cannot be recovered we are kinda screwed.

I was wondering if there is any kind of software that could take a scanned image of a drawing and convert it into a .dwg. We have hard copies of all our drawings, so we can redraw them if we need to, but this would be so much easier.

Let me know if you have ever heard of anything like this.

[Galingula]

http://www.designpresentation.com/

[Steve Dave]

exactley what I was looking for, thanks so much. :D

[Galingula]

http://cadtutor.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=41652#41652

[Steve Dave]

cool, thanks for the extra info.
Our IT guy is such an idiot. We hired him to set up our server, he's not an employee of ours, we're a pretty small company.

Anywho, the tape drive system he put in didn't work correctly, We lost everything from now back to early 2005, but everything before that was still on the tapes. I'm not sure if our data just became too large to store on the tapes or what.

So he spent 4 days messing with the tapes because he couldn't even figure out how to pull the info off at first, then after finding this out sends the hard drive to a company to try and restore it, and turns out they are shut down for two days. So here we are a week later without our server files and my boss says heads will roll soon. :P

[Galingula]

cool, thanks for the extra info.
Our IT guy is such an idiot. We hired him to set up our server, he's not an employee of ours, we're a pretty small company.

Anywho, the tape drive system he put in didn't work correctly, We lost everything from now back to early 2005, but everything before that was still on the tapes. I'm not sure if our data just became too large to store on the tapes or what.

So he spent 4 days messing with the tapes because he couldn't even figure out how to pull the info off at first, then after finding this out sends the hard drive to a company to try and restore it, and turns out they are shut down for two days. So here we are a week later without our server files and my boss says heads will roll soon. :P

Server backups are ridiculously inconsistent. I bet more than 60% of people who use tapes couldn't recover data in the case of an emergency. HP's OBDR is for the most part a myth. I back up projects to CD (DVD now), I mirror the server drives onto other drives, and they've got the quick switch tabs out in front so swapping the drives takes a second to do, or simply grabbing a drive and taking it home for the weekend. Periodically test your stuff by attempting to restore files and systems. Backups are only as good as your restore skillz