CoLateral
Drawing / Ingestion

PDF Sheet Indexer

Ingests PDF drawing sets and builds a structured sheet index with revision history and delta-sheet flags.

Drawing / IngestionProduction candidate
PDF Sheet Indexer running in the CoLateral workspace
PDF Sheet Indexer in the CoLateral desktop workspace.

What it does

Ingests PDF drawing sets, extracts sheet numbers, titles, and revision history, and generates a structured sheet index. Flags delta sheets and coordination clouds.

What it does not do

Accuracy depends on PDF text layer quality. Scanned or rasterized drawings require OCR pre-processing.

How to use it

Use as the first step in any drawing-set ingestion workflow.

Covers

pdfsheet-indexdrawingsingestionrevision-log

Use PDF Sheet Indexer in your own projects

Every tool ships inside the CoLateral desktop workspace, so a result can stay attached to the project, the drawing, and the review trail it belongs to instead of ending up in a loose spreadsheet.

Outputs are design aids and stay in draft until a qualified engineer reviews and approves them.