pdf-construction
PDF Processing for Construction
Overview
Adapted from Anthropic's PDF skill for construction document workflows.
Construction Use Cases
1. RFI Processing
Extract structured data from Request for Information documents.
from pypdf import PdfReader
import re
def extract_rfi_data(pdf_path: str) -> dict:
"""Extract RFI fields from PDF."""
reader = PdfReader(pdf_path)
text = ""
for page in reader.pages:
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