>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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Received on Tue Jun 08 1999 - 17:45:58 BST