Extract data from 2D CAD Drawing PDFs
Use AI to extract Raw Data from 2D CAD drawings searching and structuring notes, schedules and tables.
Extract data and search 2D CAD drawing PDFs
Use cases
How it works:
- PDF CAD drawings exist on every construction project and staff lose time manually fetching data from these drawings.
- Simply upload the CAD Drawings into Civils.ai.
- List the data you need to extract in natural language and our proprietary algorithm extracts any schedules, notes and tables from the drawing.
- Save your teams time by eliminating manual transcription of PDF data.
How it works:
- Upload and organise key drawings and contractual documents into your document storage or integrate Civils.ai with Autodesk Construction Cloud to find them automatically.
- Type queries to instant search across the information in your repository and fetch answers.
- Help your staff stay compliant on your projects
What data can we extract?
Find specific details from your Civil & Infrastructure drawings
- Need to know a thickness for foundation type on your project? Simply ask the AI and it will find the answer and retrieve the relevant drawing.
- In locations like interfaces between structures our system has the ability to understand information reading across multiple drawings at once.
Find specific details from your Utilities & Layout drawings
- Need to find details of the traffic diversion plan? Simply ask the AI and it will find the answer and retrieve the relevant drawing.
- Our system not only understand the labels on a drawing but associates them together with the objects being labelled to understand the true meaning of the drawing.
- Find similar drawings you've previously created to markup and pass to your CAD technician for reusing on the next plan.
Find specific details from your Building Designs & Floor Plan drawings
- Need to find details or quanities from a specific floor of the building? Simply search with natural language for the details you need
- Count off basic quanities from your drawings automatically
- Double check your building plans meet with legal requirement such as disabled access and fire safety.
Find specific details from Architectural details
- Need to find architectural details from your PDF archive to reuse on your latest project? Simply search with natural language for the details you need
- No need to categorise or group details yourself, simply use natural language for the filtering.
- Download details and pass to your CAD Technician for reuse.
Quantity Take-offs from your CAD Drawings are coming in August 2025!
We will be able to automatically extract areas, lengths and counts from your drawings.
We will be able to automatically extract areas, lengths and counts from your drawings.
Optimised for modern PDF but capable of reading Scanned, Handwritten & Historic Drawings
- In construction it's all too familiar that we are given can be untidy and messy data with a big chunk of our time spent simply cleaning information up.
- We developed our system to read from even the most challenging document formats with unmatched accuracy.
- We use cutting edge vision intelligence AI to read everything.
Project case study
Where Civils.ai has been having an impact
We support the Contractor Penta Ocean with automated workflows to help them bid for tunnelling projects more efficiently
We support Consultants at Asia Infrastructure Solutions with automated workflows to extract data and feed into digital twins for Infrastructure Projects
We help the Developer JTC automate checking proccesses like code compliance, contract compliance checking and cross-checking items like schedules of rates against variation orders.
We support Consultants and Clients in the United Kingdom design critical Energy Infrastructure by utilising and checking data from scanned historic land datasets
1,203
AI workflow runs
"We use Civils.ai getting answers across our 400+ page contracts, specs and COP."
5-15 minutes
saved per prompt
"We save 5-15 minutes per prompt, depends on if we are on site & question complexity."
89%
results accuracy
"For text & tables it's excellent. We appreciate the team's efforts to capture more CAD data."
200+ hours
effiency saving
"Auto checking our plans against tender specs is a game changer."
Example of the savings over 4 months on a $520 million infrastructure project.
Optimised for mobile
Know everything about your project even whilst visiting site or in a meeting
Login securely from your web browser.
- Never get caught out whilst your are on the job site or in a meeting.
- Instantly search 1000's of project documents in seconds.
Modernize the way you work with your CAD Drawings
Escape from trying to find key details here
Reuse key details + find details you never realised you had
Our projects are complex and we don't always realise when another team member has already designed the same thing before.
Share your repository
- Save the AI workflow to your team account
- Give others in your team permission to run your workflow
- Share outputs and your results with others in your team
Sync with Autodesk & more
Get started by uploading your PDF drawings manually or sync us with your ACC so we can automatically pull in your drawings and start indexing them.
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