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wcisco17

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About wcisco17

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    Comment #47611911

    Fair callout — Bluebeam Max does touch estimation. That said, we've talked with 20+ subs and almost none know them know exists. The reality is people that work in construction (Exc…

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    Comment #47582763

    Lovely. Are you in the construction space or are you a dev or both?

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    Comment #47580909

    Have you tried using it with Finnish construction documents? It should work for the detections that cover drawings.

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    Comment #47580150

    Until then pdf rules!!!

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    Comment #47579964

    Hey thanks!! For estimation we cover division 08 (doors and opening) you can use it for your estimating purposes with these two endpoints: - Counting all the doors: https://www.get…

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    Comment #47579908

    Fair point and thanks for the tip. No AI here though.

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    Comment #47579902

    Yep we're constantly improving we're currently above 0.87 for doors we're thinking of adding a params for the ROC curve so that you can decide your own optimal thresholds depend on…

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    Comment #47579669

    Yeah OCR for technical is largely solved we're targeting the construction documents space For construction specs we have a few endpoints: - https://www.getanchorgrid.com/developer/…

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    Comment #47578732

    interesting yeah parsing DWG/DXF natively makes sense when the source file is clean and well-structured. The precision argument is valid in controlled environments. The challenge w…

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    Comment #47577942

    good q — we don't train on customer drawings. Our detection models are trained on a curated dataset of architectural drawings we've sourced and labeled ourselves, focused on the mo…

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    Comment #47577394

    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…

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    Comment #47577296

    Thanks! https://www.getanchorgrid.com/developer/pricing Let me know if you find it useful or have any questions, happy to help.

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    Comment #47577210

    Hey OP here - Love to help if you're looking for a team to implement a solution. https://cal.com/anchorgrid/anchorgrid-external-meeting?durat...

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    OCR for construction documents does not work, we fixed it

    So we've built an API and trained models that detects fixtures, extracts schedules, and analyzes construction documents. Check us out! More examples: - https://www.getanchorgrid.co…

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    Comment #47575360

    I also added an example PDF (just so you can interact with the results live) https://www.getanchorgrid.com/developer/docs/endpoints/drawi...

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    Comment #47573788

    What specifically would be most useful — a door detection example, spec parsing, or elevation detection? You can use it like this -- Upload a pdf first: curl -X POST https://api.an…

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    Comment #47533202

    My co-founder and I got pulled out of e-commerce into construction. What we found was a document format that breaks every tool you throw at it — OCR, Textract, Mistral, SVG convers…

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    Show HN: Built a tool to analyze Bills in Congress and post concerns on x

    You can analyze latest bills in congress using AI and get the AI to generate a post on X with your concerns.

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    Comment #42639004

    Hey thanks for the quick feedback, I'm updating the UX atm and you can hit me up on twitter: https://x.com/jolerapidee

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    Show HN: Awra – AI-powered legislative bill analyzer

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