About Scankukaï
Scankukai was born of industrial experience and a passion for 3D innovation. Our mission: to provide companies with reliable, visual data to secure their projects and improve efficiency.
It all started in 2009 with an industrial revamping project on the other side of Europe, in a gigantic factory... but without any up-to-date drawings. It was necessary to travel extensively, take photos and make sketches on site, and then suffer the ups and downs of carrying out the work that resulted from this lack of knowledge of the installations.
That's how I came up with the idea of finding a way of capturing the site in 3D. At the time, laser scanners were mainly used for offshore, nuclear and large-scale archaeological projects.
I decided to extend this technology to the industry as a whole, and was among the first to use a Faro Focus Scanner in France back in 2011.
Since then, I've never stopped improving my process and using new techniques, such as photogrammetry and Gaussian Splatting.
The OpenScanTools project
OpenScanTools is a program I designed with 3 developers. It's totally free and its code is open source. It's easy to use, and makes it possible to efficiently exploit 3D surveys, even on large, complex installations.
The aim is to offer customers a tool that's suitable for industry and construction, and which doesn't require any 3D experience.
For each of my projects, the data is supplied with this software, in addition to the standard formats (e57, Recap...). You can visit the OpenScanTools website via the following icon. The page contains a download link:
The founder - Yan Koch
After graduating from the Ecole Centrale de Nantes engineering school in 1997, and also holding a Master's degree in Mechanics from the ULP in Strasbourg, I first worked in HVAC engineering, then in industrial refrigeration, before launching into 3D laser scanning in 2011, with the aim of democratizing this technology to limit site hazards.
Right from the start of my 3D scanning business, I made it a rule to supply the scans, and this at a time when scanning companies only supplied a CAD model. That's why I've always focused on the quality of the scans, to ensure that the user experience is as pleasant and fluid as possible.
This has even led to an artistic vision of the 3D point clouds resulting from the scans, which I express through the 3D capture of remarkable trees in my spare time. I invite you to visit my dedicated Instagram page to discover these trees.