PDF Boring Logs to 3D Models: A Demonstration of AI Digitization Today
PDF Boring Logs to 3D Models: A Demonstration of AI Digitization Today
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About BoreDM (short for Boring Data Management): BoreDM is a market-leading, modern solution for borehole data management which has been selected by over 15 state departments of transportation and industry-leading firms to replace gINT in its first two years on the market. Under Louis’s leadership, BoreDM has quickly established itself as a key player in the space by working with state DOTs, small geotechnical shops, and large, internationally operating firms to enhance time-tested workflows and develop modern efficiencies.
Key Points:
- Digitization of historical PDF boring logs is now commercially available.
- Robust quality-checking processes are available for AI-based digitization.
- Historical data is valuable not only in its original form, but also when integrated into newer tools and models.
Digitizing historical PDF logs has long been a goal of the geoprofessional community. While OCR technology can extract text snippets from pages, it does not have the spatial understanding required to structure data from highly-varied boring log formats.
Rapid advancements in AI-based computer vision models have changed that paradigm, and cutting-edge platforms are now able to recognize concepts like “surface elevation” without being pre-configured to search a certain part of the log for that value.