Extract a bill of materials from PDF drawings into Excel

1. 1

   Upload

   Drop in PDFs exported from CAD, or scans, up to 50 MB and 200 sheets a file. Each sheet is read on its own.

2. 2

   Read

   SpecCapture finds each sheet's parts list and reads it row by row, with the title block too, so you also get each sheet's drawing number and revision.

3. 3

   Check

   Select any value to see the box on the drawing it was read from. Values SpecCapture is unsure of are flagged; correct one in place and the export carries your correction.

4. 4

   Export

   Download an Excel workbook whose Bill of Materials tab holds one row per parts-list row, marked with its sheet, or the same rows as CSV or JSON.

• Everything is reviewed at first

  A new workspace starts with every value waiting for a person. A field is accepted automatically only after 20 confirmations in a row with no correction, and exports mark whatever is still waiting.

• Parts lists over several sheets

  A parts list that continues onto another sheet comes back as each sheet's rows, in one tab, each row marked with the sheet it came from.

• Scanned parts lists

  On a scan, a smudged character can change a quantity or a part number: on a hand-lettered parts list scanned from an old report, 75.0% of the cells it read were right. Values recognized as handwriting are always flagged for a person to check.

• File limits

  Up to 50 MB and 200 sheets a file, and a sheet up to 150 million pixels. Accepted: PDF, TIFF, PNG, JPEG, BMP and WebP.

Every fact in one place, with how accuracy was measured: SpecCapture at a glance.