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zodo123last Thursday at 7:06 AM1 replyview on HN

How does your system do with hand-drawn plans from an old-school architect? Is reliable OCR and line reading dependent on CAD output plans?


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aakashprasad91last Thursday at 4:11 PM

We do best on CAD-originated PDFs where we can use the underlying vector data, but we can run on scanned/hand-drawn sets too. In that case we rely more on image-based detection + OCR (no clean vector layer), so accuracy depends on scan quality, contrast, and how consistent the annotations are. We’ve had success on some older/detail-heavy scans, but it’s definitely a harder mode. If you have a representative “old-school” set, we’d love to run it and show you where it works well vs where it struggles.