u/Basic_Draw_911

POV: you need usable geotechnical data from a PDF scanned in 1997

Building a tool for digitizing old geotechnical borelogs made me realize one thing:

engineers have absolutely no common handwriting standard 😭

Some of these scanned PDFs look ancient but firms still depend on the data inside them every day.

u/Basic_Draw_911 — 6 hours ago