When you receive a new set of plans that actually has a searchable text layer

One of these days we will make it auto generate even if it doesn't 🙂 Thanks for your patience in the meantime. We'll get there. Lots of updates in progress.

If only we had OCR ability...

Oh...Wait...We have that now 🙂🚀🚀

zzTakeoff will auto OCR newly uploaded plan pages. We are still working on a way for this feature to apply to existing projects, but new projects will auto OCR when you upload the plan pages if no text data is found in the PDF.

True Story.....I use to grab a extra computer from IT to run OCR on documents since it would clog up my bluebeam. Look how far we have now come!

This was launched today silently in the background 👍🏻😊🚀

True story #2 - I was on a call with the zzTO team and my browser randomly refreshed while on the call.......they said....Kyle that was another update deployed....we do that almost daily.

So if you see a odd "refresh" just know something new or a fix just arrived at your keyboard.

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Since this feature is still a work in progress, I wanted to point out that sometimes plans are sent out that only have a text layer in the title block area, while the rest of the page (the part you actually would want to be able to search) does not. I know the current workaround is to highlight a word on the page and tell it to copy as text so that the page then becomes searchable, but I wish this would just happen behind the scenes automatically instead of the system being "fooled" by pdfs that only have a very tiny portion with a text layer.