Extract Data from Material Certificates & Mill Certs
A material certificate ties a specific batch of material to its chemical composition and mechanical properties, traceability data that is usually needed again later, filed away as a scanned PDF. Datafromfile extracts the certificate's identifying numbers and property tables into structured data so that traceability lookup doesn't mean re-reading the original PDF each time.
Supported document types
- Material test certificates (mill certs)
- Certificates of conformance with chemical/mechanical property tables
- Batch/heat traceability documents
Fields extracted
- Grade
- Heat Number
- Batch Number
- Certificate Number
- Chemical Composition (per element, as tabulated)
- Mechanical Properties (e.g. yield strength, tensile strength, elongation)
Use cases
- Building a searchable traceability record from filed material certificates
- Verifying a received batch's certificate against a specification requirement
- Archiving chemical composition data for audit purposes
Frequently asked questions
- Can it read certificates with a dense element-by-element composition table? Yes, each element and its percentage is extracted as a separate field where the table presents them individually.