Tool
PDF Viewer: Auto-Extract Room Data from 2D Floorplans
Most PDF viewers either focus on just looking at plans or on drawing on top of them. Our viewer is built to automatically extract information from 2D floorplan PDFs, and to keep working with it afterward.
Steps
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Load a floorplan PDF through a process
A 2D floorplan PDF enters the workflow, as one step in a process you already run.
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Auto-extract room tags into the database
Room tags are automatically extracted from the plan and created as rooms in the database, structured according to the open pragmaticBIM schema.
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Enrich the room information
Add area, use, occupancy, or any other detail to each room, whatever the next process step needs.
BlueBeam vs Adobe PDF vs {yourcompany}os Viewer
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{yourcompany}os Viewer
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| Positioning | Markup and takeoff tool | General document viewer | Built for data extraction |
| What it does with plans | Measure and annotate | View and comment | Extracts rooms automatically |
| Room data | Stays as markup, not data | No structured data | Becomes queryable rooms |
| Reuse downstream | Exports as PDF, or image | Exports as PDF, or image | Feeds the next process step |