Custom systems

Unified parts catalog search system

A desktop tool that unifies large spare-parts catalogs into one instant search experience, then opens the original PDF page with the part details in seconds.

TypeCustom systems
StageDelivered
Year2025
Our roleEnd-to-end analysis, design, and development: extraction, indexing, UI, and search engine

The challenge

Spare-parts catalogs were spread across huge PDFs with inconsistent part-number formats, and some were OCR-scanned with noisy text, making manual lookup slow and error-prone.

The solution

We built an indexing engine that extracts parts and descriptions with source-specific parsing, normalizes part-number formats, corrects common OCR issues, and powers a desktop search UI that opens the original diagram or table directly from the PDF.

The result

The result is one searchable system indexing 15,274 parts across 3 catalogs, cutting part lookup time from minutes of manual browsing to a few seconds.

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