The following are guidelines to help you get the best results when scanning lot plans or designs for the purpose of inserting into a Design drawing for tracing:
•Always scan as a JPG rather than a TIF
•Scan as small an image/file size as you can
•Set your scanner’s resolution to no higher than 200dpi
•Scan in black and white to reduce file size
•When having large plans scanned always ask for a JPG file and have them scan at 50% (at 200dpi)
•Try placing the lot plan in your scanner so the house or building sits parallel to the edges - this will make it easier to trace then if the house is on an angle.