Use case
Twenty years of files, and the right version at the right moment.
The difficulty rarely stated: there is not one answer, there are four, written in four periods, under four revisions of the same standard. Without the date and the source, an answer is worthless.
The situation
Technical teams live with documents that legitimately contradict each other: a tolerance agreed in 2011 is not wrong, it is superseded. A search engine that returns the 2011 passage without saying so produces an expensive mistake.
Then there is the format: part of the archive is scanned PDF with no text layer, and therefore invisible to any conventional search. Those documents are often the oldest ones, which is exactly where human memory needs the most help.
What Clairdex changes
- 01
Date every answer
Each citation carries the document's date and status. Where several versions exist they are presented together rather than silently arbitrated.
- 02
Make the scanned archive readable
OCR is applied to documents with no text layer, with an extraction quality check. Documents whose extraction remains insufficient are listed rather than quietly ignored.
- 03
Follow a subject over time
A question about a component, a method or a requirement returns the chronology of the documents that address it, newest first.
Document types covered
| Type | Extraction | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Calculation notes, test reports | Native or OCR | Simple tables are preserved, tables as images are flagged |
| Internal standards and procedures | Native | Versioning is carried over where the source provides it |
| Minutes and project correspondence | Native | Useful for recovering the reason behind a decision, not only the decision |
| Supplier datasheets | Native or OCR | Often the most heterogeneous source in the corpus |
| Dimensioned drawings and schematics | Out of scope | Values shown on a drawing are not extracted reliably |
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