The challenge at JinSulate.
Insulation contractors in the United States get their material quantity from a slow manual takeoff: measuring wall area on each blueprint, subtracting windows and doors, and arriving at the net insulation area. That handwork is error-prone and costs hours per bid.
NedDev was asked to build a tool that reads a PDF blueprint and pulls out the orderable square footage of insulation. The hard part was reliability. A report that returns different numbers on each run is useless for a quote. Reproducibility was a firm requirement, not a nice-to-have.