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Producer 
Type 
3D Veritas 
3D-Veritas 
InnovMetric Software 
Polyworks Modeler 
INUS Technology 
RapidForm 2001 
metrologic group 
Metrolog II 
octocom AG 
OctoCAD 
Raindrop Geomagic 
Geomagic Studio 
SDRC 
Imageware Surfacer 
Z+F UK Ltd 
Light Form Modeller 
Table 1. Overview of 3D scanning software supplied indepen 
dent of scanner producers. More software is supplied by scanner 
producers (see table 1 in Boehler, Marbs, 2002). 
8. CONCLUSIONS 
As compared to industrial applications, cultural heritage appli 
cations of 3D scanning often involve more complex objects. 
This results in more complex processing which in return makes 
more complex software products necessary. 3D scanning will 
become an accepted alternative to other metric recording 
techniques only, if adequate software is made available in the 
future. On the other hand, this will result in a 3D documentation 
quality and comprehensiveness that could not be envisaged a 
decade ago. 
9. REFERENCES 
Boehler, W. Heinz, G., Marbs, A., 2001: The potential of non- 
contact close range laser scanners for cultural heritage re 
cording. XVIII CIPA Symposium, proceedings (in print). 
(Also available at http://www.i3mainz.fh-mainz.de). 
Boehler, Marbs, A., 2002: 3D scanning instruments. Published 
in this volume. 
Marbs, A., 2002: Experiences with laser scanning at i3mainz. 
Published in this volume. 
Visnovcova, J., Zhang, L., Gruen, A., 2001: Generating a 3D 
model of a Bayon tower using non-metric imagery. Int. 
Archives of ISPRS, Volume XXXIV, Part 5AV1, pp. 30-39. 
WWW, 2002: http://scanning.fh-mainz.de.