I have a desire to take a populated PCB, take a digital photo of the top and bottom, then import the images into a PCB layout tool. What would be ideal would be to lay components on top of the imported PCB image on a different layer, manually route these components (following the tracks from the image), then do a 'Forward Annotate' to create the schematic.
I cannot seem to find a PCB layout tool that will allow me to do this. The tools that I have found, which support forward annotation, will not allow complete components to be forward annotated. Many of the tools will allow the image import but not the level of forward annotation that I desire.
Does anyone know for sure a PCB/Schematic layout tool that will allow this? Thanks Jim