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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 #47577299
Thanks!!
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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
I built Awra to solve a simple problem: understanding what bills in Congress actually mean for regular citizens. What it does: - Explains federal bills in plain language - Shows st…