Engineering Drawing Manager: A Smart Data Extractor and Management Software

Honglong Yang, Yang Du, Jingwei Guo, Shiyi Wei, Hongbin Ma*

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Engineering drawings play an important role in fields such as architecture, industrial engineering, and electric engineering, within which tables contain essential data and structures. However, most engineering drawings exist in the form of scanned PDFs or images, which is inconvenient for data management and storage, especially for table information. Also, many industries are in urgent need of data management software for engineering drawings to improve the degree of digital preservation and management. To this end, a software, ED Manager which is based on the fusion of deep learning and traditional image processing, is presented to detect the position and structure of the table, split and recognize characters, and reconstruct the table in a digital form. Further, we extract crucial information and develop a user interface and database to construct a comprehensive model that fits most engineering drawings. Our software can accurately locate tables for various complex drawings, extract structured information from tables, and build a better data management software for engineering drawings.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIntelligent Robotics and Applications - 15th International Conference, ICIRA 2022, Proceedings
EditorsHonghai Liu, Weihong Ren, Zhouping Yin, Lianqing Liu, Li Jiang, Guoying Gu, Xinyu Wu
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages230-241
Number of pages12
ISBN (Print)9783031138409
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2022
Event15th International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications, ICIRA 2022 - Harbin, China
Duration: 1 Aug 20223 Aug 2022

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume13458 LNAI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference15th International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications, ICIRA 2022
Country/TerritoryChina
CityHarbin
Period1/08/223/08/22

Keywords

  • Engineering drawings
  • Optimal character recognition
  • Table reconstruction
  • Table structure recognition

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