Extract & Cross-Reference Data Across Engineering Documents
Engineering work rarely lives in one document: a drawing, a spec, and a supplier submission all need to agree with each other. Beyond extracting fields from a single file, Datafromfile can compare structured data across several engineering documents at once: catching a value that changed between revisions, a part number that appears twice, or a specification that conflicts between two files.
Supported document types
- Any engineering document Datafromfile classifies as a report, specification, or drawing
- Sets of related engineering documents uploaded together for comparison
Fields extracted
- Document-specific fields (varies by document type, see the specific extractor for drawings, specs, or BOMs)
- Revision identifiers used to align documents for comparison
Use cases
- Reviewing what actually changed between two drawing revisions
- Finding a part number that was duplicated across a document set
- Checking whether a supplier submission matches your specification field-for-field
Frequently asked questions
- How many documents can I compare at once? Revision comparison works on a pair of documents at a time; duplicate and specification-conflict checks can run across a whole uploaded batch.
- What counts as a "conflict" between documents? The same key field (like a part number) resolving to two different values across documents that should agree. The comparison flags it rather than silently picking one.