Bentley Descartes

Rapid Interpretation and Conversion

Bentley Descartes is designed to provide fingertip control over all the editing functions necessary for image interpretation and raster-to-vector conversion. It expedites work, saving time and money with a robust set of tools including cleanup, vectorization, and Optical Character Recognition. Descartes can also isolate a color and extract the associated features through line following or heads-up digitizing at survey level accuracy for input to engineering processes. Preserve and exploit your existing scanned documents or drawings by converting them to MicroStation with Bentley Descartes.

Combine imagery in virtually any format and projection with the precision mapping capabilities of MicroStation and Bentley’s geospatial applications for map production and digital map creation to support your business or government’s requirements. Bentley Descartes gives you an unparalleled level of integration for raster data. It takes full advantage of the geometric accuracy of the MicroStation environment so you can leverage images for survey quality mapping and precision engineering. The seamless integration of Bentley Descartes with MicroStation avoids dual working environments for raster and vector information.

On-the-Fly Projection

On-the-fly projection saves time and effort. Any georeferenced image can be transformed on-the-fly to another coordinate system and projection. This greatly simplifies the management of data sets that include images from several different source projections. Dynamic resampling provides instantaneous raster transformation and Job Manager allows users to process resampling jobs in batch. You can also fine-tune design elements by processing vector information instead of the raster.

Flexible Image Manipulation

Bentley Descartes includes tools to crop, copy, move, merge, scale, mirror, square, and rotate images or objects within images, as well as tools to make regions of images translucent or transparent. These interactive tools provide dynamic feedback, making image manipulation intuitive and efficient. Use these capabilities to automate production of montages, corridor and plan sheet alignments, or to lay out plots or documents. Image enhancement processes such as density slicing allow for immediate corrections and adjustments without conversion to another format. Use the extensive Bentley Descartes API to automate repeatable manipulation workflows that can be executed in batch.

Precision Registration

Our unique WYSIWYG image registration is much more intuitive than other approaches that require distinct windows for vector and image data and that rely heavily upon transformational statistics. Register provides for dynamic warping which overlays vector data over the uncorrected image so you can verify the transformation model before resampling the image. It also provides for transformation of vector data through the same model and batch resampling of images.

Create Image Mosaics

Capitalize on the high performance display engine and the capabilities of Bentley Descartes to create seamless mosaics of multiple images, scanned aerial photos, or adjacent raster scanned images to see the complete picture for use in your business processes. Choose to leave the source images in their original form to produce a mosaic or create an easily transportable mosaic all in one file. Several images can be done at once, and the process is swift, interactive and can be completed in minutes!

High Performance Image Display

Bentley Descartes is built on Raster Manager, the high-speed raster display engine of MicroStation.  Images can be loaded in a flash and zoomed and panned interactively. User can move seamlessly between raster and vector editing in MicroStation. You have full control over display order of raster and vector data, ensuring an optimal display and plot every time.

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