can a computer on your desk read a plat?

posted on 2026-06-30 16:30:00

Or: a field test of local vision models, for surveyors

A narrow, practical question, the kind I actually care about: can a vision model running entirely on your own machine, offline, read the bearings and distances off a plat well enough to be useful? Not a cloud servicei.e. not "upload your client's recorded document to somebody else's server" — the whole point is that nothing leaves the desk. A model that lives on the desktop and reads the calls the way you'd skim them before typing them into your drafting software.

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