Find what you need
in your drawings, instantly.
Search architectural drawings, detect symbols, link related sheets and change instructions, and take off quantities — the full use of your drawings, with AI
A drawing turned into a PDF is still not a usable drawing
You cannot find a drawing quickly
Folders and file names are all you have to go on, so reaching the sheet you want takes time.
Nothing is tied together
Plans, sections, specifications and RFI responses are stored apart from one another, and the relationships cannot be followed.
Changes and differences cannot be tracked
Nobody is sure which revision is current, so there is always a risk of working from a superseded sheet.
It is not usable as data
The information inside a drawing is not structured, so it cannot be aggregated or fed to other systems.
Find the sheet fast, connect it by symbol, and keep it usable as current data
Filefront is an AI drawing platform: AI-OCR reads what is inside your PDF drawings, so you can find the one sheet you need from a drawing type, a symbol, or a keyword in the content. You search the drawings themselves, not the folder structure or the file names.
AI drawing search
AI-OCR and automatic classification make the inside of the PDF searchable too. Switch between fast exact-match keyword search and AI search by meaning. You can switch the search on and off for file name, page name, content and symbol.
From a symbol to the related sheets
Opening symbols (AW, SD, AD and so on) are detected automatically on the drawing. The symbol tab lists every sheet that symbol appears on, and thumbnails take you to the page you want.
Page links
Attach RFI responses, specifications, sections and more to a floor plan and manage them together. Related pages are also recommended automatically.
※ Related-page recommendation works at page level. Placement of anything other than symbols is manual.
Markup
Draw directly on the drawing and share it with your team in real time.
Revision control
Changes and additions to a drawing are detected and notified automatically. Highlighted differences stop people working from a superseded sheet.
Structuring drawing data
Drawing data is structured and connected to BIM and other management systems through an API, accelerating the use of information locked inside PDFs.
Access control
Access control by site, by company and by role, including partial sharing with subcontractors.
Works with where your files already live
Filefront syncs automatically with SSO and your existing file system, so dropping a file into a designated folder is enough to trigger import and processing. Box integration and single sign-on with a Microsoft account are supported. For other services, please ask.
Not just finding things —
hand over the hands-on work itself.
Routine work on drawings and documents can be built as a workflow and handed over. This is not just a “combine into one PDF” feature. Processing flows are designed around your purpose, and you can add as many as you need.
Pick the documents you have and press run.
Following the flow you configured, it works across the drawings and documents inside Filefront.
Download the result. Anything that could not be processed is listed too.
Processing flows can be saved and reused. The run history keeps who ran it, when, and whether it succeeded.
Find and gather the drawings, attachments, special notes and RFIs named on a slip or checklist, and join them in the order they appear.
Cross-check the documents you handed over against the drawings, and surface what is missing.
Find every place a particular component or specification is used, across the whole drawing set. Useful for pre-renovation surveys and quantity take-off.
Getting started — a free trial first
Talk it through
Tell us what is difficult about managing your drawings today.
Free trial
Try it for up to one month with a limited set of documents, such as the design drawings for one site.
System integration
We set up SSO and automatic sync with your existing file system.
Rollout support
We configure it around how you work and support it until it sticks.
※ The drawings and documents to be searched must already be in PDF form.
Frequently asked questions
What can I do during the free trial?
Can it connect to our existing file server or BIM?
What drawing formats are supported?
Can we build workflows ourselves?
Will the drawings we upload be used to train AI?
How is it priced?
Tell us what is hard about managing your drawings
A free trial of up to one month lets you try it on your real drawings.
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