Discussion
AnchorGrid Developer Docs
fithisux: Of course it is not working. PDF and images are supposed to be tamper resistant. OCR tries to reverse engineer them.
kube-system: Since when is tamper resistance a part of PDF or any common image format?
Iulioh: When will this be available for 30000x8000px electrical diagrams?I have to make a BOM and oh boy I hate my job
oritron: What software made the bitmap? Seems like a step earlier in the pipeline could help generate a BOM more easily.
jsidney: What do you hate the most?
Terr_: [delayed]
wcisco17: So we've build an API and trained models that detects fixtures, extracts schedules, and analyzes construction documents. Check us out!More examples: - https://www.getanchorgrid.com/developer/docs/endpoints/drawi...Main website: - https://www.getanchorgrid.com/developerWhy we did it: https://www.getanchorgrid.com/developer/docs/changelog/const...
vessenes: cool. What's pricing like?
testUser1228: What do you foresee being the end use case for this (or most valuable use case)?
wcisco17: Anyone building in or for construction tech — whether that's a startup building estimating or project management software, a construction company with an internal tech team solving this themselves, or a builder looking to automate their workflow. The common thread is drawings. Every one of those groups lives and dies by their ability to extract actionable data from a PDF that was never designed to be machine-readable. We're building the layer that makes that possible so they don't have to start from scratch.
wcisco17: Thanks! https://www.getanchorgrid.com/developer/pricingLet me know if you find it useful or have any questions, happy to help.
vessenes: Thanks -- btw the Pricing link on the site pulls up a form, not that page.
pwagland: PDF files can be signed, that is tamper resistance. Tamper resistance doesn't have to make any difference to the readability of the document.
kube-system: So can any type of file -- that doesn't have any relevance to the supposed design of every file type in existence. Now, later versions of PDF do have explicit support for signatures, but what does this have to do with preventing OCR? OCR reads a file, it doesn't change the original file.
ranger_danger: Some OCR solutions do change the original file, like OCRmyPDF. They take layers that were just images before and replace it with text layers so that you can search the document.
ware-intel: Your smart features looks like a game changer? Nice job!
wang_li: Why does the workflow lie at the level of a real or virtual piece of paper and not in the metadata from the applications used to create that piece of paper? Seems like a CAD tool would allow you to identify each element of the drawing, assigning metadata as required.
jsidney: Only a small set of construction stakeholders participate in the CAD ecosystem (e.g., architects, large GCs) while a broader set of stakeholders (subcontractors, trades, smaller GCs/CMs) do not receive BIM files and work with PDFs. CAD/BIM is a wonderful aspiration but for many the reality is PDFs.
fithisux: True but you can make modified copies if you reverse engineer it with OCR.
cyanydeez: Oh you sweet summer child. These draws are anywhere from 0 to 120 years old and might just be something pulled out of a floppy disk from 1970 to scanned in coffee ridden pieces of paper sitting in a desk folded a hundred times.The world in which metadata is a common thing attached to any file doesn't exist, and probably never will, no matter how much you try to improve CAD work flow.
