Cadastral maps play dominant roles in land administration as their accuracy requirement is the highest among the nine databases in the National Geographical Information Systems (NGIS). However, old cadastral maps usually get wrinkled and destroyed for their frequent uses in early era. Thus, the establishment and supply of digital cadastral data are the most primary work for preserving cadastral maps in NGIS. This paper examines possible sources of error in the processes of transferring hardcopy cadastral maps into digital cadastral data via scanning in order to deduct the accuracy of the products based on error propagation principles. Meanwhile, the influence of using wrinkled cadastral maps was also evaluated. Empirical results of this paper should provide quantified information about errors for workers and end-users digital cadastral data for their first consideration in the application, evaluation and decision-making in using these data.