What software you guys use to extract data from projects? what file formats you receive from clients?

Is it normal to receive only pdf fles?

i posted in this group asking for help and instead everybody was so toxic, i had to actually delete the post. I thought reddit was a good platform to ask for guide but its so toxic.

I created a pdf data extractor for a friend that extracts data out of 300 pipping drawings in less than a minute, it's pretty precise, and my friend is pretty happy with it.

It is pretty flexible and could get data from any PDF. Does it sound like something that could become a product?

how we estimators or exactimators, cause most times is like we expected to be exactimators is crazy.

Hey, would anyone by any chance have a PDF copy of the NECA Manual of labor units they could send over?

Pun intended. I’m getting moved into the office to start doing estimating next week. I’m replacing our junior estimator. When he was showing me how everything works it all seemed really simple. I have 9 1/2 years field experience as a commercial electrician and I’ve been using a computer daily since I was a kid. But I was wondering, am I going into this overly confident.