AI cut-sheet reading
Video coming soon — the written steps below cover everything.
Two layers of reading
- Local scanning (free, always on): when you drop plans or PDFs in, SprinkFlow scans them on your machine — pattern matching and OCR, nothing uploaded. This is what detects your legend, schedule, and project details.
- AI enhancement (subscription): for cut sheets and specs, the AI reads the document like a person would — identifying the manufacturer, product, and where it belongs — so new datasheets file themselves correctly instead of arriving as "untitled PDF."
Using it
- Add a cut sheet to the catalog (or drop a spec into a project).
- Let the reader run — it proposes the item's name and category.
- Review what it proposed. You always get the final say before anything lands in a package.
When it misses
- Just edit the item — retitle it, move it to the right category. Your correction sticks; the package prints what the catalog says.
- Multi-product PDFs (a whole fitting family in one document) are the usual culprit. Give the item the family name and let the TOC entry describe the group.
Privacy, plainly: plan scanning is local. Only the cut-sheet/spec AI enhancement uses a hosted model, it's opt-in by being a subscriber feature, and your documents are never used to train anything.
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