Minolta South Africa has signed an exclusive agreement with Softelec, for the distribution of the VPHybridCAD raster editing and vectorising software suite in the southern African region.

The VPHybridCAD software will be distributed through the wide format printing systems division of Minolta South Africa's Océ.

Océ's business unit manager, Luis Roldan, says organisations that manage paper drawings, such as architects and engineers, require advanced methods to scan, edit and convert their drawings into digital format. "In the past, Minolta offered hardware to convert hard copy legacy documents to digital format, but because scanned images do not always translate into suitable archival quality, customers had to source the relevant software to 'clean up' their images."

Roldan says that most organisations prefer using a single application software tool that allows simultaneous raster and vector editing.

"VPHybridCAD responds to this demand and provides software applications to combine raster images and vector data, resulting in improved CAD editing, cost savings, and workflow productivity," concludes Roldan.

For more information: Luis Roldan, Minolta South Africa, 011 249 4000.